I think I came across this in Macey - but in my view it more or less permits
for a notion of the universal that overcomes the local or particular. There
is absolutely no reason to allow local forms of knowledge and power -
implicitly defended, I think, by Cordelia - to act as a barrier to defending
human rights. As Clare puts it, in a supplement to Ravinder, 'is there any
reason why people outside a culture should not support those who are
struggling against entrenched systems of power and injustice within their
own cultures? It goes without saying that we are not talking about the
convenient 'resistance' rhetorics of other power mongers with vested
interests.' I think in many ways this goes to the heart of the concerns that
I have expressed here
----- Original Message -----
From: "Clare O'Farrell" <panoptique@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 10:18 PM
Subject: Re: Human rights
> At 19:10 +0100 2/4/04, McIntyre wrote:
> > Did Foucault not talk of the responsibility that we
> >hold because of our global citizenship?
>
>
> Might I add to Arianna's and Colin Gordon's comments with another
> citation from the piece they have already referred to by Foucault
> 'Confronting governments: human rights', in Power, ed James Faubion,
> New York: New York Press, 2000.
>
> Foucault notes 'there exists an international citizenship that has
> its rights and its duties, and that obligates one to speak out
> against every abuse of power, whoever its author, whoever its
> victims. After all, we are all members of the community of the
> governed, and therefore obliged to show mutual solidarity', p. 454.
>
> I like the bit about the obligation to speak out against *every*
> abuse of power, no matter where one finds it.
>
> My thanks to Ravinder Sidhu for also reminding me of this short but
> very worthwhile article yesterday!
> --
> Clare
> ************************************************
> Clare O'Farrell
> email: panoptique@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> website: http://www.foucault.qut.edu.au
> ************************************************
>
for a notion of the universal that overcomes the local or particular. There
is absolutely no reason to allow local forms of knowledge and power -
implicitly defended, I think, by Cordelia - to act as a barrier to defending
human rights. As Clare puts it, in a supplement to Ravinder, 'is there any
reason why people outside a culture should not support those who are
struggling against entrenched systems of power and injustice within their
own cultures? It goes without saying that we are not talking about the
convenient 'resistance' rhetorics of other power mongers with vested
interests.' I think in many ways this goes to the heart of the concerns that
I have expressed here
----- Original Message -----
From: "Clare O'Farrell" <panoptique@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 10:18 PM
Subject: Re: Human rights
> At 19:10 +0100 2/4/04, McIntyre wrote:
> > Did Foucault not talk of the responsibility that we
> >hold because of our global citizenship?
>
>
> Might I add to Arianna's and Colin Gordon's comments with another
> citation from the piece they have already referred to by Foucault
> 'Confronting governments: human rights', in Power, ed James Faubion,
> New York: New York Press, 2000.
>
> Foucault notes 'there exists an international citizenship that has
> its rights and its duties, and that obligates one to speak out
> against every abuse of power, whoever its author, whoever its
> victims. After all, we are all members of the community of the
> governed, and therefore obliged to show mutual solidarity', p. 454.
>
> I like the bit about the obligation to speak out against *every*
> abuse of power, no matter where one finds it.
>
> My thanks to Ravinder Sidhu for also reminding me of this short but
> very worthwhile article yesterday!
> --
> Clare
> ************************************************
> Clare O'Farrell
> email: panoptique@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> website: http://www.foucault.qut.edu.au
> ************************************************
>