Decolonizing Human Rights

This course critically explores the histories and assumptions of human rights and the international human rights law with a view to unpacking the entanglements of human rights and international human rights law with colonial logics of domination, racialization, and misogynoir. The course will examine how racialized and colonized people have engaged human rights for emancipatory projects, how Christians have engaged, translated, and framed human rights theologically, and explore the limits of human rights and the promises of emancipation that they make.