Rethinking Human Rights: Critical Insights from Palestinian Youth

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Erika Jiménez (Queen's University Belfast, UK) Colin Harvey (Queen's University Belfast UK)

Rethinking Human Rights

Critical Insights from Palestinian Youth

Erika Jiménez (Queen's University Belfast, UK), Colin Harvey (Queen's University Belfast UK)

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Hart Publishing
17 October 2024

Human rights; Civil rights & citizenship; Human rights & civil liberties law

Series: Human Rights Law in Perspective

Palestinians have used the language of human rights to articulate their struggle against the Israeli occupation and internationalise the injustices they face. Palestinian young people learning about human rights at school experience a dissonance between the aspirational and internationalised framework of those norms and the layers of injustice of their own lived experience. Drawing on research in the occupied West Bank, this book explores the three layers of marginalisation faced by Palestinian young people – the Israeli occupation that denies them their humanity; the Palestinian pseudo-state that denies them a voice; and patriarchal structures that deny them agency – to show how these barriers influence their understanding of, and scepticism towards, human rights. Influenced by decolonial theories, this book illuminates how space needs to be created for the counter-narratives of the oppressed in human rights discourse, which may not align with more conventional representations of human rights. It contends that human rights and, by extension, human rights education in the Palestinian context (and beyond) needs to be critiqued, decolonised and ultimately transformed.

By: Erika Jiménez (Queen's University Belfast UK)
Edited by: Colin Harvey (Queen's University Belfast UK)
Imprint: Hart Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 238mm, Width: 164mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 520g
ISBN: 9781509954827
ISBN 10: 1509954821
Series: Human Rights Law in Perspective
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 17 October 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Erika Jiménez is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the School of Law, and Mitchell Institute Fellow: Rights and Social Justice at Queen’s University Belfast, UK.