28 November 2024
Bilbao Campus
Asier Martínez de Bringas, professor and researcher at Deusto, has released a new book entitled “Los derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas. Luchas por la descolonización”, in the context of the Human Rights Institute and its interdisciplinary research group ‘Derechos Humanos y retos socio-culturales en un mundo en transformación’ (Human Rights and socio-cultural challenges in a changing world).
The book, issued by the Tirant Lo Blanch publishing house, argues that, on many occasions, the human rights discourse has functioned as an exclusionary discourse and that indigenous collective rights imply a fracture of this exclusionary discourse by exposing that reality is more complex, plural and diverse than what the liberal canon of rights established.
Therefore, the researcher Asier Martinez's text addresses the need to provincialize the West and emphasize the local character of its way of understanding life, rights and development. A decolonization to restore the particular meaning of rights discourse, to reflect its narrow and excluding dimension. Decolonizing also implies a radical critique of Eurocentrism through the creative power proposed by indigenous collective rights, which suggest a lateral universality, from below, from the peoples.
