2017
DOI: 10.1017/s0260210516000450
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The politics of universal rights claiming: Secular and sacred rights claiming in post-revolutionary Tunisia

Abstract: This article contributes to a theoretical understanding of rights claiming as a specific form of political practice. The article develops and defends a post-foundationalist understanding of rights discourse as a way of making a claim to social change through appealing to a universal and illustrates such an understanding with the contestation over women’s rights in post-revolutionary Tunisia. To develop this argument, the article draws on Jacques Rancière’s notion of political subjectification and Ernesto Lacla… Show more

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“…Bourguiba ruled the country for 31 years and turned the country towards the west, enacting several reforms to create a secular and modern country. These included restructuring the Tunisian court system under a secular model, reforming the personal status law legalizing divorce, authorizing abortion, giving free access to contraception, prohibiting polygamy, setting a minimum age for marriage and controlling Islamic institutions such as the Zaytuna Mosque (Borg 2017;Andrieu 2016, 265). Bourguiba's policies to modernise the country by controlling religion entailed the violation of religious freedoms.…”
Section: Human Rights In Tunisia During Bourgouiba and Ben Ali Eramentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Bourguiba ruled the country for 31 years and turned the country towards the west, enacting several reforms to create a secular and modern country. These included restructuring the Tunisian court system under a secular model, reforming the personal status law legalizing divorce, authorizing abortion, giving free access to contraception, prohibiting polygamy, setting a minimum age for marriage and controlling Islamic institutions such as the Zaytuna Mosque (Borg 2017;Andrieu 2016, 265). Bourguiba's policies to modernise the country by controlling religion entailed the violation of religious freedoms.…”
Section: Human Rights In Tunisia During Bourgouiba and Ben Ali Eramentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Human rights violations have been routine in Tunisia since independence; however, at the same time the language of rights has also long been important to Tunisian political discourse (Borg 2017). Both leaders, Bourgouiba and Ben Ali, tried to maintain the image of Tunisia as a secular and modern country.…”
Section: Human Rights In Tunisia During Bourgouiba and Ben Ali Eramentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…In fact, leading proponents of IR poststructuralism have drawn on Laclau and Mouffe to elucidate the ontological status of discourse. 5 Also, scholars have used individual theoretical concepts from discourse theory in their work, such as the conception of discourse, 6 nodal points, 7 the empty signifier, 8 the notion of decision, 9 the relationship between particularism and universalism, 10 or the logics of difference and equivalence. 11 However, the overwhelming majority of studies follows some form of conceptual cherry picking rather than tapping into the full potential of discourse theory.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%