![]() ![]() In this article I advance that such thought is of use because it provides plausible resources to address the shortcomings of human rights within liberalism, and allows human rights to be brought within the purview of a wider political project adopting a critical approach to current relations of power. What can we do with human rights after critique? How do we approach rights when we no longer worship at their altar? One proposal is that after the critique of human rights it may be possible to reclaim their potential for radical politics by using radical democratic thought. What follows from this conclusion, however, is more contested. The conclusion appears to have been reached, albeit not always by the same means, that we can no longer uncritically accept human rights in their current, liberal form. I also assert, via Judith Butler’s model of cultural translation, that a radical democratic practice of human rights may be advanced which resonates with and builds upon already existing activism, thereby holding possibilities to persuade those who remain sceptical as to radical re-engagements with rights.Ĭritical engagements with human rights have dominated much of critical legal thought throughout the past number of years. Building upon previous re-engagements with rights using radical democratic thought, I return to the work of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe to explore how human rights may be thought as an antagonistic hegemonic activity within a critical relation to power, a concept which is fundamentally futural, and may emerge as one site for work towards radical and plural democracy. Radical democratic thought provides plausible resources to rework the shortcomings of liberal human rights, and allows human rights to be brought within the purview of a wider political project adopting a critical approach to current relations of power. In this article I assert that after the critique of rights one way human rights may be productively re-engaged in radical politics is by drawing from the radical democratic tradition. The critique of human rights has proliferated in critical legal thinking over recent years, making it clear that we can no longer uncritically approach human rights in their liberal form. ![]()
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