Thread by @DrTva1607

Delighted to announce that my publisher, Springer Nature, has approved and sent me the contract for our edited book collection: 'The Wretched of the Global South - Critical Approaches to International Human Rights Law' .

A thread !

This book will be edited by an outstanding editorial collective consisting of Amritha, @SierraJimena and Shaimaa and my humble self. The inclusion of women from the Global South is key to resistance within international law.

Over the last one year we have contacted colleagues -academics and activists alike- to amplify marginalised voices in contemporary legal and political discourse; offer alternatives practices that emanate from marginalised localities;

reflect upon alternatives rooted in legal and non-legal responses to address human rights grievances. To this end, this book envisages -along the lines of Frantz Fanon- to vision the possibility of the human by a new concept, addressing the concerns in various ways:

as Fanon argued for “a new start,” “a new way of thinking,” and for the creation of another version of human that counters the overrepresentation of European man, it is pertinent to trigger a human rights project from the below.

In the end, I had envisaged a book to disrupt Western human rights savourism, to question post-colonial hegemony and stress the inherent agency of subaltern voices.

With this editorial collective I found an exquisite group of allies to achieve that goal and offer our humble support to emerging voices from the Global South to enter the centre stage.

The chapters will include a range of issues from different localities in the Global South such as: business and human rights Palestine and the colonial legacies of such; vernacularising human rights in ASEAN Regionalism; experiences of Afro-Colombian displaced women from Colombia

critical perpectives on human rights from an Ugandan perspective; farmers' rights in India and Agricultural Agreements - and so much more. This will be a truly unique contribution to the academic literature of international (human rights) law.

In short: this book will be of the Global South, by the Global South and from the Global South. The resistance has just started - and we won't stop.

#HumanRightsViolations
#globalsouth
#Colombia
#FarmersProtest
#Palestine