Critically Queer Yet Politically Affirmative Engagements With Human Rights

dc.authorscopusid 59539492900
dc.contributor.author Güner, R.O.
dc.date.accessioned 2025-02-15T19:38:28Z
dc.date.available 2025-02-15T19:38:28Z
dc.date.issued 2024
dc.department Kadir Has University en_US
dc.department-temp Güner R.O., Kadir Has University, Faculty of Law, Department of Philosophy and Sociology of Law, Istanbul, Türkiye en_US
dc.description.abstract Considering recent queer engagements with international human rights, this article argues that emerging attempts at queering rights have often resulted in framing queer critique into the normativity of human rights. This article critiques this tendency, suggesting that queer engagement with rights can be critical yet (potentially) affirmative. It shows that queer critique, understood as non-essentialist politics, can contribute to contemporary critical human rights studies and their analyses of identity-producing functions of rights. In this way, the paper engages not only with the subject paradox of the rights discourse but also with queer responses to identity-based rights claims. I argue that queer critiques, shifting the focus from ontology to politics, encourage an affirmative engagement with framings of rights by considering identities as political claims, understanding rights not in ontological terms but as instruments for shifting temporary strategies in practice. The arena of rights, a site where debates about the definitions of human are contested, is a crucial space for deploying non-essentialist politics. In this context, the article refers to queer as a critical method in deploying rights to reduce the disciplinary effects of identities, helping us to free ourselves, our engagements with others, and politics from the eyes of the Normative. © 2024 Istanbul University Press. All rights reserved. en_US
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dc.identifier.doi 10.26650/annales.2024.75.0001
dc.identifier.endpage 32 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 0578-9745
dc.identifier.issue 75 en_US
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dc.identifier.scopusquality Q4
dc.identifier.startpage 1 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://doi.org/10.26650/annales.2024.75.0001
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12469/7187
dc.identifier.wosquality N/A
dc.institutionauthor Güner, R.O.
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Istanbul University Press en_US
dc.relation.ispartof Annales de la Faculte de Droit d'Istanbul en_US
dc.relation.publicationcategory Makale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı en_US
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess en_US
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dc.subject Critical Theory en_US
dc.subject Human Rights en_US
dc.subject Identity Politics en_US
dc.subject Michel Foucault en_US
dc.subject Queer Theory en_US
dc.title Critically Queer Yet Politically Affirmative Engagements With Human Rights en_US
dc.type Article en_US
dspace.entity.type Publication

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