3. MANY KINDS OF
RIGHTS
Human rights
Employee rights
Traveller’s rights
Patient’s rights
Attorney-Client privilege
Union rights
4. Members of Wisconsin’s public service unions protest at the
statehouse in Madison in opposition to ‘union-busting’ measures
proposed by the Governor, March 2011.
5. Stranded: Today, Canada, the EU, and the US (among others) a%
have a passenger bi% of rights--ensuring a minimum standard of
accommodation in the event of delays, cance%ations, or over-
bookings.
6.
7. VARIOUS RIGHTS =
RIGHTS IN CONFLICT
So many rights are being
articulated at once:
Even the international
human rights texts have
‘overlapping’ and
simultaneous rights (e.g.
“rights of the child”, “right
to privacy”, “right to the
body” versus “right to
agency”
8. DO WE HAVE RIGHTS?
How do we know we have
rights? How do we know
our rights have been
violated?
How do we address rights
violations?
Where do express our
discontent or take our
grievances?
9.
10. WHERE DO RIGHTS
COME FROM?
Do they come from a
religious power? The state?
Institutions? Group
membership?
How might we see rights as
having a geography? In
what ways are rights
spatially relevant?
12. UNIVERSAL, BUT...
Human rights are activated Rights are spatially
in response to a perceived bounded, conditionally
violation. guaranteed by states,
employers, institutions
The knowledge of that (e.g. Miranda warnings in
violation, your rights, and the US, Ontario Human
the mechanisms to have Rights code)
your rights accommodated,
is not universal. Rights are performative.
We activate rights and call
them into being.
