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HARP-140 |
Title: |
Recognizing social and economic rights in neo-liberal times: some geographic reflections |
Source: |
Canadian Geographer, v.45(1) Spr’01, 50th Anniversary Issue pg 167-172 |
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Year: |
2001 |
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Keywords: |
constitution, economic, social, and cultural rights, employment, gender equality, human rights, movement and residency, non-discrimination, social security, civil and political rights, housing, minority rights, self-determination, standard of living |
Abstract: |
In `Liberalism and the political geography of rights’, Blomley and Pratt (this issue) explore some geographies of the “consequential, complex, and inescapable nature of rights”. Here, I engage especially with two aspects of their discussion: first, the expansive potential of rights talk for “voices in protest of domination”; and second, the relationship of constitutional rights and place. More particularly, I argue that geography has particular insights to deploy in concert with anti-poverty efforts to secure social and economic rights as integral aspects of substantive citizenship in Canada. Albeit that Blomely and Pratt and others identify critical and complex gaps between legal rights and rights as they are lived, they also acknowledge that formal rights are necessary. But, in the area of economic and social rights, even this minimal requirement is subject to considerable dispute. This lack of formal clarity is especially critical given the frequency with which expansive efforts are attacked as too expensive in the context of economic globalization. Following Norcliffe (this issue), I see the legal challenges of anti-poverty activists as a discursive and material alternative to neo-liberal globalization and so, I also situate this examination within that broader socio-economic-political context. |
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Keywords: civil and political rights, constitution, cultural rights, economic, employment, gender equality, housing, human rights, minority rights, movement and residency, non-discrimination, self-determination, social, social security, standard of living