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GLJ Short: Resistance and Reform as Responses to Human Rights Criticism
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With Shubham Jain
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Link to the article
[Shubham Jain, "Resistance and Reform as Responses to Human Rights Criticism: Relativism at FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022" German Law Journal vol. 24:9 (2023), https://doi.org/10.1017/glj.2023.119)
Table of Contents of Volume 24
Abstract
Abstract: The language of human rights is a prominent tool of choice to push for moral principles such as justice, equity, and fairness in the social, economic, and political spheres. Simultaneously, the concept and practice of human rights have attracted critiques. Relativism is one such enduring critique. Relativists advocate due and reasonable consideration towards cultural diversity and specificity of diverse human communities, within the limits allowed by universality of human rights. The relativist critique featured prominently in the debates surrounding Qatar’s hosting of the FIFA World Cup 2022. Commentators have spoken about Qatar’s scrutiny often moving beyond legitimate human rights criticism, uninformed activism being counterproductive; and the appropriateness of, largely, Western and maximalist ideals of human rights being applied without accounting for local needs and peculiarities. In this Article, I bring together the literature on the relativist critique and the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 as a case study, to examine the usefulness and limitation of human rights as a language of critique to achieve meaningful transformative change in sporting contexts. I focus on the debates surrounding the rights of migrant workers and the rights of the LGBTQIA+ community; and argue that while human rights advocacy had a notable impact in relation to FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, it is a tale full of cautions and lessons.
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Chapters
1. GLJ Short - Introduction (00:00:00)
2. In a nutshell, what is the article about? (00:00:34)
3. What motivated you to write this article? (00:01:54)
4. Why did you choose a sport competition to analyse the struggle between Relativism and Universalism? (00:03:13)
5. What conclusions and recommendations did you draw from your analysis? (00:04:17)
6. Outro (00:05:59)
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