Analysing users' trajectories in human rights: a conceptual exploration and research agenda
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- Ellen Desmet (UGent)
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- This article develops a research approach which can be summarised as ‘analysing users’ trajectories in human rights’. The key element of this approach, adopting a users’ perspective on human rights, implies a shift in analytical focus. Instead of analysing a specific legal instrument, topic or enforcement mechanism, one puts oneself in the shoes of those who engage with (use) human rights. The article explores the implications of adopting such a users’ perspective on human rights and introduces and reflects upon a categorisation of human rights uses and users. It proposes a broad understanding of human rights users, including rights claimants (who invoke human rights), rights realisers (who give effect to human rights), supportive users (who support the realisation of human rights) and judicial users (who impose the implementation of human rights), and argues that a possible way of adopting a users’ perspective is through analysing the ‘trajectories’ of users in relation to human rights.
- Keywords
- human rights research, trajectories, human rights, human rights law, users’ perspective, HRC
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-5871150
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- Desmet, Ellen. “Analysing Users’ Trajectories in Human Rights: A Conceptual Exploration and Research Agenda.” HUMAN RIGHTS & INTERNATIONAL LEGAL DISCOURSE, edited by Ellen Desmet and Eva Brems, vol. 8, no. 2, Intersentia, 2014, pp. 121–41.
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- Desmet, E. (2014). Analysing users’ trajectories in human rights: a conceptual exploration and research agenda. HUMAN RIGHTS & INTERNATIONAL LEGAL DISCOURSE, 8(2), 121–141.
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- Desmet, Ellen. 2014. “Analysing Users’ Trajectories in Human Rights: A Conceptual Exploration and Research Agenda.” Edited by Ellen Desmet and Eva Brems. HUMAN RIGHTS & INTERNATIONAL LEGAL DISCOURSE 8 (2): 121–41.
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- Desmet, Ellen. 2014. “Analysing Users’ Trajectories in Human Rights: A Conceptual Exploration and Research Agenda.” Ed by. Ellen Desmet and Eva Brems. HUMAN RIGHTS & INTERNATIONAL LEGAL DISCOURSE 8 (2): 121–141.
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- 1.Desmet E. Analysing users’ trajectories in human rights: a conceptual exploration and research agenda. Desmet E, Brems E, editors. HUMAN RIGHTS & INTERNATIONAL LEGAL DISCOURSE. 2014;8(2):121–41.
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- [1]E. Desmet, “Analysing users’ trajectories in human rights: a conceptual exploration and research agenda,” HUMAN RIGHTS & INTERNATIONAL LEGAL DISCOURSE, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 121–141, 2014.
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