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Favarato, Claudia:
Children without Humanness : Criança-Irân Infanticide Cultural Practice Challenging Human Rights in Guinea-Bissau.
In: Politikon : South African Journal of Political Studies.
Vol. 48
(2021)
Issue 1
.
- pp. 57-73.
ISSN 0258-9346
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02589346.2020.1861508
Abstract in another language
This article focuses on the discrepancies between the onto-metaphysical foundations of criança-irân ritual infanticide (practised in Guinea Bissau) and the principles underpinning international, legal human rights. Bissau-Guinean cosmological beliefs justify the infanticide, excluding infants from the category of human being. This paper argues that the practice and its underpinning principles constitute a threefold challenge to human rights, as analysed in the three sections constituting the paper. The first part reveals the apparent inconsistency between the primary human rights corpus and given cultural practices, in the framework of the right to culture. The second it takes into account the universalist and the relativist stances in the discernment of individualistic and societal features as benchmark for human rights formulation, implementation and protection. Last, resorting to ethical pluralism, it exposes the dichotomy between the practice and human rights' foundations, emphasising the peculiar ways in which humanness, and hence rights-holder, have hitherto been conceptualised.
Further data
| Item Type: | Article in a journal |
|---|---|
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Institutions of the University: | Faculties > Faculty of Languages and Literature > Chair African and Afrophone Philosophies |
| Result of work at the UBT: | No |
| DDC Subjects: | 100 Philosophy and psychology > 100 Philosophy 300 Social sciences > 320 Political science |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Jul 2023 08:58 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Jul 2023 08:58 |
| URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/86039 |