ECHR: an analysis from perspectives of inclusion and the recognition of differences in identity

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https://doi.org/10.5007/1806-5023.2018v15n2p163

Abstract

Based on a factual analysis of cases of racism (Article 14 of the ECHR) tried by the European Court of Human Rights, this study seeks to identify the current limits to the promotion of social inclusion and the recognition of differences in Europe. Within the perspective of Jürgen Habermas's Reconstructive Theory of Law and Axel Honneth's Theory of Recognition, we are able to dispute the supposedly exclusivist application of human rights in Europe through the exposure of jurisprudential failings, which have substantially compromised their effectiveness and democratic legitimacy within the social sphere. We will also argue for the consequences of a system of rights put into effect and legitimized by the particularistic means of a majority-Western culture that hides the arbitrariness and oppression to which continually inferiorized groups not included in modern law are subjected. 

Author Biography

Vanessa Capistrano Ferreira, PhD in Internacional Relations at Sao Paulo State University

Vanessa Ferreira is a Brazilian Ph.D. student in the International Relations subject from the Interinstitutional Postgraduate Program of the International Relations course taught at “San Tiago Dantas” College (UNESP, UNICAMP, PUC-SP). She has been granted a scholarship from Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). She has received her Master’s degree in Social Sciences from the Sao Paulo State University (UNESP/ Brazil). Mrs. Ferreira has dedicated to the areas of “European Studies”, most notably: critical theory, human rights, citizenship and identity recognition. She has been a researcher of the “Human Rights, Migration and New Subjectivities” subject in the Center for International Studies and Analysis (NEAI/UNESP) and a member of the research group in International Relations and Foreign Politics in the area of “Human Rights and International Relations”.

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2018-12-20

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Vol. 15 No. 2 (2018): Dossiê Pensamento Social Alemão

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Artigo para Dossiê

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