Belonging Beyond Rights: Community, Inequality and the Public
Publication Date
2023
Document Type
Dissertation
First Advisor
Alison LaCroix
Second Advisor
Genevieve Lakier
Third Advisor
Laura Weinrib
Abstract
The dissertation explores from different methodological and theoretical perspectives the relationship between rights and society. From the Human Development Report to a Rule of Rights and American feminists' changing understanding of abortion rights, the dissertation explores rights' syntax in various contexts. Each paper grapples with the ways rights are defined, contested, and reclaimed in distinct arenas and the role of community in those endeavors. Read in conversation; the papers reflect on how rights discourses and public spaces shape our political imagination. They argue that freedom requires not merely an individual liberation but a collective construction of a public realm, concerned with people not merely as individuals but as members of a community (or many).
Recommended Citation
Niedmann Alvarez, Natalia, "Belonging Beyond Rights: Community, Inequality and the Public" (2023). J.S.D. Dissertations. 76.
https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/jsd_dissertations/76
https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.10099
