HREQ 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Boaventura De Sousa Santos, Dharma, Identity Politics
13 Dec 2017
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He argues that depending on how narrow or wide the gap is between the experience and expectation about the future we can either have a type of reform or reformist transformation or revolutionary one. He moves on to try to explain the origins of human rights (the genealogy) in the. As part of his reasoning, he reminds us that we have started to speak of global civil society, global governance, global equity. Santos also argues that from the 1990s onwards, there has been a counter hegemonic globalization from below this coincides with moyn"s analysis of the history of human rights. That"s why he argues that the politics of human rights is a cultural politic as well, in the sense that there are cultural differences. Therefore, what he does, keeping in mind this new interpretation and challenge based on cultural and identity politics, is he tries to establish both global competence and local legitimacy for a progressive politics to human rights.
