'Precarious Desires and Ungrievable Lives: Human Rights and Postcolonial Critiques of Legal Justice'
3(2) London Review of International Law 267 (2015)
Posted: 7 Jun 2021
Date Written: 2015
Abstract
This paper interrogates the idea of legal justice that informs LGBT and women’s international human rights interventions. It unpacks the governing sexual, gender, and cultural norms that limit the capacities of legal justice in relation to precarious desires and explores alternative registers of justice including in feminist affect theory as well as postcolonial approaches that exceed the confinements of liberal legality.
Keywords: queer, lgbt, feminist affect theory, postcolonial, legal justice, precarious desires, alternative registers of justice
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Kapur, Ratna, 'Precarious Desires and Ungrievable Lives: Human Rights and Postcolonial Critiques of Legal Justice' (2015). 3(2) London Review of International Law 267 (2015), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3857101
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