Canada and the political geographies of rights | Asia Pacific Dispute Resolution

ID:	HARP-141
Title:	Canada and the political geographies of rights
Source:	Canadian Geographer, v.45(1), Spr’01, 50th Anniversary Issue pg 151-166.
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Year:	2001
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Keywords:	Canada, human rights, politics, Geography
Abstract:	For some observers, liberal rights are politically disempowering, while for others they can provide a basis for mobilization, resistance and the formation of counter-publics. Yet neither of these claims says much about the geography of rights, which provides the focus for our discussion. Rights are geographical in several senses: rights are often about access to space or place; in liberal societies, geographies of private and public shape access to rights; space naturalizes social relations; the politics of scale open up new debates about and strategies for attaining rights within and beyond Canada; and places are both defined and called upon in struggles over rights. In an exploration of two Canadian case studies – gentrification in Vancouver and the status of Filipina domestic workers – we examine the ways in which the geography of rights proves consequential to dominant and oppositional rights claiming. We briefly lay out the meaning and significance of rights, before a discussion of their political significance in the Canadian context.
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