Challenges of Grounding Universal Human Rights. Indigenous epistemologies of human rights and intercultural dialogue in consultation processes on natural resource exploitation

Projektinformationen

GROUNDHR

ID Finanzhilfevereinbarung: 708096

DOI 10.3030/708096

Das Projekt endete am 26 September 2018

EK-Unterschriftsdatum 18 April 2016

Startdatum 1 September 2016

Enddatum 2 Dezember 2018

Finanziert unter

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Gesamtkosten € 148 635,60

EU-Beitrag € 148 635,60

Koordiniert durch

CENTRO DE ESTUDOS SOCIAIS
Portugal

Ziel

GROUNDHR investigates how the construction of intercultural dialogue can be advanced as a means of grounding universal human rights in different contexts of cultural diversity. Despite the theoretical consensus, after decades of debate, that universal human rights do not require uniformity, the integration of cultural diversity in human rights’ norms and practice remains hard to realize. This research sees the ‘intercultural interpretation of human rights’ as a way to anchor universal human rights’ norms in a dialogue with what de Sousa Santos calls ‘Epistemologies of the South’. These locally-grounded views are rooted in other forms of knowledge belonging to those groups systematically excluded and silenced by colonialism and capitalism. However, a huge knowledge gap concerning these other human rights views exits. Therefore, from a methodological point of view, this project demonstrates the richness of a bottom-up, empirically grounded research by focusing on the human rights of indigenous peoples in Latin America. GROUNDHR’ design is grounded in a legal anthropological comparative, Guatemala and Colombia, approach applying methodological triangulation in order to grasp the (inter)national and local legal perceptions. It examines the challenges of grounding indigenous epistemologies of the human right to water and the construction of intercultural dialogue through the prism of consultation processes on hydroelectric dams. In Latin America, the implementation gap regarding this right to prior consultation about large-scale development projects in indigenous territories stands high on the political agenda. On the applied level, GROUNDHR will build strong practice-based evidence about these consultation processes, providing a richer understanding of the overall research question. Its results will also be translated into policy recommendations drawing on lessons learned and best practices that will guide stakeholders in future consultations.

Wissenschaftliches Gebiet

• social sciences › media and communications › journalism
• social sciences › sociology › social issues › corruption
• social sciences › political sciences › political transitions › armed conflicts
• social sciences › sociology › anthropology
• social sciences › law › human rights

Schlüsselbegriffe

• intercultural human rights
• legal anthropology
• indigenous peoples
• Latin America

Programm/Programme

• H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Main Programme
• H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility

Thema/Themen

• MSCA-IF-2015-EF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF)

Aufforderung zur Vorschlagseinreichung

H2020-MSCA-IF-2015

Finanzierungsplan

MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)

Koordinator

CENTRO DE ESTUDOS SOCIAIS

• Netto-EU-Beitrag: € 148 635,60
• Adresse: COLEGIO S JERONIMO PRACA D DINIS ; 3000 995 Coimbra ; Portugal
• Region: Continente › Centro (PT) › Região de Coimbra
• Aktivitätstyp: Research Organisations
• Gesamtkosten: € 148 635,60