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The Other Human Rights: Radical Activism(s) before 1980 The Other Human Rights: Radical Activism(s) before 1980
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Against the NIEO Against the NIEO
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Reformulating Rights: Legalistic Informatisation Reformulating Rights: Legalistic Informatisation
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Making Indicators Work Making Indicators Work
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Informatising Rights: Indicators as Technical Project Informatising Rights: Indicators as Technical Project
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Formatting States as ‘Discrete States’; or, Effacing the Global Formatting States as ‘Discrete States’; or, Effacing the Global
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What Alternatives for Social and Economic Rights? What Alternatives for Social and Economic Rights?
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Notes Notes
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3 Doing Rights as Indicators: Informatising Social and Economic Rights
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Published:October 2022
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Abstract
The nook’s third chapter follows parallel, if much more discontinuous, efforts to measure social rights through indicators from the 1980s until their ascendency in the noughties. The chapter argues that this turn to indicators reflects a strategy to depoliticize social rights by turning them into information. Throughout the middle of the 20th century, what would become known as the Third World mobilized social and economic rights claims, most notably the right to self-determination, in an expressly political project designed to remake the global economy on fairer, more just terms. Situating indicators in relation to this political use of rights, the chapter considers how their emergence responded to anxieties precisely about the political nature of social rights with seemingly objective forms of measure organized around very narrow interpretations of their legal inscription in international law. The result, the chapter argues, is an informatized practice of ‘doing’ rights work that reconfigures and reduces the social rights project to a process of finding and measuring information.
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