Book review: Vernacular rights cultures: the politics of origins, human rights and gendered struggles for justice by Sumi Madhok

Koenig, Moritz (2022) Book review: Vernacular rights cultures: the politics of origins, human rights and gendered struggles for justice by Sumi Madhok. LSE Review of Books (04 Apr 2022). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

In Vernacular Rights Cultures, Sumi Madhok challenges dominant understandings of human rights by exploring how subaltern groups mobilise for justice through particular political imaginaries, conceptual vocabularies and gendered political struggles. Combining theoretical discussion and ethnographic research with a commitment to decolonial praxis, this rewarding book will be of great interest to scholars and students of decolonial and postcolonial theory, anthropology, South Asia and human rights, writes Moritz Koenig. Vernacular Rights Cultures: The Politics of Origins, Human Rights and Gendered Struggles for Justice. Sumi Madhok. Cambridge University Press. 2021.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/
Additional Information:	© 2022 The Author
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) J Political Science > JC Political theory H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
Date Deposited:	25 Oct 2022 10:00
Last Modified:	15 Sep 2023 11:35
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/116803

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