After rights, after Man? Sylvia Wynter, sociopoetic struggle and the 'undared shape'

• Published in: The international journal of human rights Vol. 28; no. 8-9; pp. 1251 - 1278
• Main Author: Odysseos, Louiza
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Abingdon Routledge 20.10.2024; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Decolonization; Hegemony; Historical structures; Human rights; Individualism; Modernity; Postcolonialism; Praxis; sociopoetics; struggles; Subjectivity; Sylvia Wynter; Wynter, Sylvia

Decolonial and post-colonial critiques have shown how rights naturalise a normatively white, Western bourgeois, and appropriative subject, while negating other forms of being and subjectivity. Given the disquiet around rights and their subject, reimagining the subject of rights calls on us to think...