Human rights and emancipation
Abstract
The emancipatory potential of the idea of human rights in contemporary world is significantly limited due to the fact that it is often presented as a product of the Western civilization, which does not suit the political and cultural reality of non-Western countries. This article attempts to reassess universality of human rights from the point of view of poststructuralist hegemony theory. Hegemonic universality, which relies on Western dominance in world affairs, is indeed imperfect, and this is most evident in the peripheral countries, where the need to correlate universal norms with the particularity of Western hegemony dramatically distorts political process. This point is illustrated using the example of the inversion of the universal norm in the criminal case against the members of the Russian «Pussy Riot» punk band and the surrounding debate. Going beyond hegemonic universality necessitates a search for the new forms of the political. The article discusses one of the tentative ways to rethink human rights along these lines with a reference to Alain Badiou’s generic philosophy of the event.
Keywords
гегемония,
права человека,
демократия,
«Pussy Riot»,
hegemony,
human rights,
democracy,
«Pussy Riot»
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