The Right to Have Rights in the Americas uri icon

abstract

  • This article examines how Hannah Arendts idea of a right to have rights could travel in the Americas. It offers a reading of the right to have rights that foregrounds the right to land as a basic right. This reading emerges through an attention to contemporary Indigenous social movements and political philosophy. Taken together, this examination and reading ask justice-oriented actors to support land back movements as part of a broader practice of defending human rights and situating those rights within a responsibility to land.

published proceedings

  • Arendt Studies

author list (cited authors)

  • Davis, B. P.

complete list of authors

  • Davis, Benjamin P