Minority Rights, Feminism and International Law: Voices of Amazigh Women in Morocco

ISBN-13: 9780367902766 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 190 str.

Silvia Gagliardi

Opis

Investigating minority and indigenous women's rights in Muslim-majority states, this book critically examines the human rights regime within international law. Based on extensive and diverse ethnographic research on Amazigh women in Morocco, the book unpacks and challenges generally accepted notions of rights and equality. Significantly, and controversially, the book challenges the supposedly 'emancipatory' power vested in the human rights project; arguing that rights-based discourses are sites of contestation for different groups that use them to assert their agency in society. More specifically, it shows how the very conditions that make minority and indigenous women instrumental to the preservation of their culture may condemn them to a position of subalternity. In response, and engaging the notion and meaning of Islamic feminism, the book proposes that feminism should be interpreted and contextualised locally in order to be effective and inclusive, and so in order for the human rights project to fully realise its potential to empower the marginalised and make space for their voices to be heard. Providing a detailed, empirically based, analysis of rights in action, this book will be of relevance to scholars, students and practitioners in human rights policy and practice, in international law, minorities' and indigenous peoples' rights, gender studies, and Middle Eastern and North African Studies.

Recenzje

"Providing a detailed and empirical analysis of rights in action, this book will be of relevance to scholars, students, and practitioners in human rights policy and practice, in international law, minorities’ and indigenous peoples’ rights, gender and religion, and Middle Eastern and North African Studies." - Mark Fathi Massoud, University of California

O autorze

Dr Silvia Gagliardi is a Gender Adviser for a major international organisation. As of September 2020, she will be implementing an ERC-research project at University College Dublin. She completed her PhD in Human Rights at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, the National University of Ireland, Galway in 2018.