Citizenship and Rights in the New Republics (LAST100 wk 6)
Channel: UBC Latin American Studies
Date: 2017-09-18

The fact that something is a social construct does not mean it is not real, or that it doesn’t have real effects. And just because a way of seeing or classifying the world can be deconstructed (or be shown to deconstruct), this does not mean we can simply wish it away.

Rights have to be first agreed upon and then interpreted before they can be actualized. No rights are ever “self-evident.” They are at best the site of what is often intense disagreement and rhetorical energy. Or they are the indices of a struggle that takes place elsewhere.

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Video by Jon Beasley-Murray for the University of British Columbia course, LAST100, "Introduction to Latin American Studies."  See https://last100.arts.ubc.ca/syllabus/week-6/.