Exiled critics’ human-rights accounts transfer remedial authority from affected societies to Western audiences

Evidence

Offering, in English for the American and European market, a fierce critique of women’s rights in Iran (Nafisi) or genital mutilation in Africa (Hirsi Ali) or gay and lesbian rights in Islam across the board (Irshad Manji) places the authority to right those wrongs in the hands of foreign readers and their elected officials, rather than the societies affected. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 717

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Exile intellectuals’ critiques transfer authority to right wrongs from affected societies to Western readers. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 705; Genocide charges mobilize transnational audiences that human-rights rhetoric cannot — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 286; Human-rights rhetoric can relocate redress authority toward imperial overseers (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Human-rights rhetoric can relocate redress authority toward imperial overseers #corroborates (0.85)
• Genocide charges mobilize transnational audiences that human-rights rhetoric cannot #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 286
• Self-exile imposes accountability to the present readership where exile does not #qualifies (0.75) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 512