Refracting rights from the margins: re-shifting, re-scripting, re-inventing

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1 Susan Banki, Elisabeth Valiente-Riedl and Paul Duffill, ‘Teaching Human Rights at the Tertiary Level: Addressing the “Knowing–Doing Gap” Through a Role-Based Simulation Approach’ (2013) 5(2) Journal of Human Rights Practice 318.

2 Makau Mutua, ‘Savages, Victims, and Saviors: The Metaphor of Human Rights’ (2001) 42 Harvard International Law Journal 201.

3 Dianne Otto, ‘Lost in Translation: Re-Scripting the Sexed Subjects of International Human Rights Law’ in Anne Orford (ed), International Law and Its Others (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2006), 318–56.

4 E.g. Suraina Pasha, ‘The Practitioner’s Bookshelf: Review of Leila Abu-Lughod’s “Do Muslim Women Need Saving”?’ (2022) 14(1) Journal of Human Rights Practice 363.

5 E.g. Samuel Moyn, Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World (Harvard University Press 2019); Rosa Freedman, Failing to Protect: the UN and the Politicisation of Human Rights (Hurst Publishers 2014); Eric Posner, The Twilight of Human Rights Law (Oxford University Press 2014); David Chandler, From Kosovo to Kabul and Beyond: Human Rights and International Intervention (Pluto Press 2006).

6 Mark Goodale, Reinventing Human Rights’, Stanford Studies in Human Rights (Stanford: Stanford University Press 2022) 16.

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Susan Banki

Susan Banki is an Associate Professor at the University of Sydney. She writes on refugees, forced migration, and transnational activism. Her book, The Ecosystem of Exile Politics: Why Proximity and Precarity Matter for Bhutan's Homeland Activists, will come out with Cornell University Press in 2024.

Suraina Pasha

Dr. Suraina Pasha is an independent researcher with a PhD from the University of Sydney, LLB and LLM degrees from the University of Leicester, and a professional background in human rights practice.