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Call for Publications Theme: Critical Debates on Human Rights Subtitle: Vulnerability, Marginality and Politics of Dispossession Publication: Laws Date: Special Issue Deadline: 15.1.2023 __________________________________________________ The question of access to justice figures prominently in human rights research. Lamenting the proposition that marginalized populations are often powerless in the struggle for their human rights, this Special Issue proposes to showcase and galvanize the fight for the protection of the human rights of those who are seemingly at the periphery of society, whose lives are frequently in danger and defined by precarity. It is incumbent upon researchers and advocates not only to make excluded populations aware of their human rights, but also to assist them in the quest to have these rights brought to fruition through policy making and institution building. The human rights of the marginalized other feed from the long tradition of philosophical debates present in the work of Emanuel Levinas, Gayatri Spivak, Julia Kristeva, Judith Butler and Enrique Dussel, among others. Overall, this Special Issue invites contributors to emphasize three justice-oriented touchstones. The first touchstone is the recognition of human dignity as a form of radical universalism. The second touchstone is the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, as well as the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities. The last touchstone is the approach that acknowledges human rights as political struggles rather than new legal constructs. Given that indigenous peoples, minority populations and migrants have been historically excluded from putatively universal human rights frameworks, this collection adopts a critical stance vis à vis Eurocentric and teleological understandings of human rights, and invites the authors to use decolonizing methodologies in their work. Human rights, defined as the civil and political, economic and social, cultural and environmental entitlements of rights-bearing subjects, have unfolded unevenly and incompletely across historical time and geographic space, finding different articulations in various political structures and cultural contexts. The contributors are thus strongly encouraged to engage with an interdisciplinary field that draws on postcolonial theory, subaltern studies, world systems analysis, neo-Marxism, feminist political economy, green political economy, Third World Approaches to International Law and other critical theoretical tendencies in challenging mainstream human rights discourses. Manuscript Submission Information Manuscripts should be submitted online at: https://www.mdpi.com All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website. Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a double-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/laws/instructions The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1200 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions. Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 January 2023 Laws is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI. ISSN: 2075-471X Guest Editor Dr. Nergis Canefe Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies York University Toronto, ON, Canada Contact: Dr. Nergis Canefe, Guest Editor Email: l...@mdpi.com Web: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/laws/special_issues/HumanRights_Vulnerability __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __________________________________________________
