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Informationen zum Autor Erika Jiménez is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the School of Law, and Mitchell Institute Fellow: Rights and Social Justice at Queen’s University Belfast, UK. Klappentext Human rights are central to Palestinian society and specifically its young people, and yet there is a high degree of cynicism towards its discourse. Drawing on research in the occupied West Bank, this book explores the three layers of marginalisation faced by Palestinian young people-the occupation; the Palestinian pseudo-state; and patriarchal structures-to show how these barriers influence their understanding of, and scepticism towards, human rights. Influenced by decolonialist theories, this book illuminates how space needs to be created for the counter-narratives of the oppressed in human rights discourse which may not align with more orthodox representations of human rights. It contends that human rights in the Palestinian context (and beyond) needs to be critiqued, decolonised and ultimately transformed. Vorwort Drawing on research undertaken in the West Bank, this book traces Palestinians’ understanding of, and cynicism towards, human rights and how those rights need to be transformed. Zusammenfassung Drawing on research undertaken in the West Bank, this book traces Palestinians’ understanding of, and cynicism towards, human rights and how those rights need to be transformed. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction2. Human Rights: The Dominant Global Discourse3. Human Rights Education: Narrow and Expansive Conceptualisations 4. Human rights as a Vehicle to Struggle against the Occupation: Reclaiming the Human of Human Rights5. Human Rights as a Vehicle to Critique the Authoritarian Palestinian Pseudo-State: Reclaiming Voice6. Human Rights as a Vehicle to Challenge Patriarchy: Reclaiming Agency7. Human Rights Education in Palestinian Schools: Discordance Between the Dominant Discourse of HRE in School and the Struggle for Rights Outside School8. Conclusions Appendix- Timeline of Key Historical and Political Events in Relation to the Palestinian-Israeli ConflictBibliography...
