Heloise Weber Senior Lecturer für International Relations and Development, University of Queensland (Australien) Aufenthalt am Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften: Juni – Oktober 2018Forschungsthema am Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften: »Human Rights and Global Development: A Critical Inquiry«Projektbeschreibung: In line with my research interests in the politics of global development and inequalities (understood
as a historically constituted global project/ world politics), I have over the past couple of years been
developing a research project on Human Rights (HR) and Global Development. My preliminary
research findings suggest that there are some quite significant tensions in the emerging HR and
Global Development framework. This is most evident with regard to the privileging of rights that
align with global commercial and investment (including free trade) law as justiciable rights.
Increasingly trade law (lex mercatoria) is aligned with development law. The 2030 Sustainable
Development Goals [SDGs] agenda is the most recent high-level international development
framework also adopted as a United Nations Resolution. This particular alignment of HR and
Global Development could potentially result in further conflict as life sustaining needs such as
water, food, shelter (to name a few) are no longer conceived as universal entitlements. Instead,
their realisation is now tethered to the question of »trade law«, which is increasingly the domain of
justiciable rights. For instance, this concerns the protection of new forms of investment law as
property law as provided for under the General Agreement of Trade in Services of the World
Trade Organisation [WTO]. This emerging global framing of HR and Global Development occurs
arguably at a historically unique conjuncture and one that has also been subject to crucial
challenges, ethically, socially and politically (see, for instance, the recent rise of social movement
politics). (Heloise Weber) Zusammenarbeit: Heloise Weber folgt einer Einladung von Gunther Hellmann (Professor für Politikwissenschaft an der Goethe-Universität) und dem an der Universität angesiedelten Exzellenzcluster: »Die Herausbildung normativer Ordnungen«. Wissenschaftliches Profil von Heloise WeberHeloise Weber ist derzeitig Senior Lecturer für International Relations and Development an der University of Queensland. Darüber hinaus war sie Vorsitzende der Global Development Studies Section des International Studies Association (ISA) Governing Council.Gegenwärtig arbeitet Dr. Heloise Weber zusammen mit Prof. Dr. Gunther Hellmann und Dr. Martin Weber an einem gemeinsamen Forschungsprojekt: »Namibisch-deutsche Beziehungen und normative Herausforderungen: Beyond the Constrictions of International Development and International Relations?«. Für weitere Informationen klicken Sie hier. Forschungsschwerpunkte: Global Politics of Development and Inequality; International Studies/Relations; Colonialism and its legacies; Postcolonial Theory and Decolonizing Thought; Social Movements and Politics of Resistance; Politics of Comparative Method(s); Relational Analysis.
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