the framework. This conceptionalisation is in the same vein as Haugaard’s (2010) perspective of power. He suggests that a resemblance “[p]ower constitutes ‘family with family members forming complex relationships within overlapping concept’, language games” (2010: 419). The next section focuses on the scholarly conversations which inform and are informed by the taxonomy. These debates map onto the components within the taxonomy. Conversations that Map onto Human Rights as a Recourse to Rhetoric This thesis feeds into three key scholarly conversations that are related to the first component in the taxonomy. This component describes the deployment of human rights as a recourse to rhetoric in what were depicted as the most marginalised socio-economic contexts. The theme of the argument draws together themes in accounts that centred on the nature of what they perceived were basic activists’ human universal human rights. Human rights were represented in terms of core values as opposed to a set of clearly defined attributes. Themes in activists’ accounts reflected upon the ability to express violations to these core values and concepts. The thesis, therefore, feeds into conversations about the extent to which human rights can be considered universal, the delocalisation of human rights attributes and finally, forms of epistemic injustice. One of the key tensions expressed in the West Bengal accounts was that activists’ of a disjunction between the Western framework and the grassroots cultural infrastructure in place to support it. The former promotes individual rights whilst the latter was characterised as one where the core primary values reflected placed an emphasis on group rights. This thesis examines the situated experiences of activists who claimed that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) framework was relevant to their work. Human rights principles are predicated upon the idea of the universality. This thesis argues, however, that the ability to engage with the framework was affected by perceptions of local structural and activists’ institutional contexts framed by alternative hegemonic value systems. Activists described the tensions arising from operating within conflicting hegemonic frameworks. This thesis feeds into the universalism debate by arguing that the
the framework. This conceptionalisation is in the same vein as Haugaard’s (2010) perspective of power. He suggests that “[p]ower constitutes a ‘family resemblance concept’, with family members forming complex relationships within overlapping language games” (2010: 419). The next section focuses on the scholarly conversations which inform and are informed by the taxonomy. These debates map onto the components within the taxonomy. Conversations that Map onto Human Rights as a Recourse to Rhetoric This thesis feeds into three key scholarly conversations that are related to the first component in the taxonomy. This component describes the deployment of human rights as a recourse to rhetoric in what were depicted as the most marginalised socio-economic contexts. The theme of the argument draws together themes in activists’ accounts that centred on the nature of what they perceived were basic human universal human rights. Human rights were represented in terms of core values as opposed to a set of clearly defined attributes. Themes in activists’ accounts reflected upon the ability to express violations to these core values and concepts. The thesis, therefore, feeds into conversations about the extent to which human rights can be considered universal, the delocalisation of human rights attributes and finally, forms of epistemic injustice. One of the key tensions expressed in the West Bengal activists’ accounts was that of a disjunction between the Western framework and the grassroots cultural infrastructure in place to support it. The former promotes individual rights whilst the latter was characterised as one where the core primary values reflected placed an emphasis on group rights. This thesis examines the situated experiences of activists who claimed that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) framework was relevant to their work. Human rights principles are predicated upon the idea of the universality. This thesis argues, however, that the ability to engage with the framework was affected by activists’ perceptions of local structural and institutional contexts framed by alternative hegemonic value systems. Activists described the tensions arising from operating within conflicting hegemonic frameworks. This thesis feeds into the universalism debate by arguing that the
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