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Public Seminar: Indivisibility of Rights and Political Economy – A Postcolonial Perspective

Abstract: Rights and rights claiming continue to be subjected to contestation and critical debate. Human rights doctrine has long reflected a hierarchical stacking of rights in the liberal frame. As neoliberal political economy is deepened, advocates of the indivisibility of rights from the liberal tradition are aligning with private commercial rights and interests. Against this, I offer a postcolonial perspective of the indivisibility of rights which is rooted in critical political economy. This critical lens is crucial for understanding the role of the dominant rights agenda and aligned frameworks in organizing and maintaining contexts of injustices, and in further delimiting strategies for redress, thereby undermining legitimate social and political struggles. The latter, however, persists, sometimes articulated and developed through innovative forms of solidarist resistance.

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