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Canadian Political Science Association2025 Annual Conference Programme
The Politics of Belonging: Conflict,
Community, Curriculum
Hosted at George Brown College, Toronto, CANADA
June 3 to June 5, 20252025 Annual Conference Programme
The Politics of Belonging: Conflict,
Community, Curriculum
Hosted at George Brown College
June 3 to June 5, 2025
Political Theory
H17(b) - Author Meets Critics Session: Feminist Human Rights: A Political Approach
Date: Jun 5 | Time: 10:15am to 11:45am | Location:
Chair/Président/Présidente : Cindy Holder (University of Victoria)
Kristen Hessler (State University of New York, Albany)Nergis Canefe (York University)
Ryoa Chung (Université de Montréal)
Yerin Chung (Queens University)
Abstract: In *Feminist Human Rights: A Political Approach* Kristen Hessler makes the case for a more inclusive approach to theorizing human rights. Using a broadly pragmatist methodology, Hessler focuses on the activism of marginalized groups for their own human rights as an articulation of moral knowledge that can and should shape human rights law. In this symposium an interdisciplinary panel critically reflects on Hessler's arguments, including the book's close analysis of testimony and jurisprudence in the ad hoc international criminal tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia on crimes of rape and sexual violence.