Human rights discourse does not exhaust political languages of the human.

Evidence

Different legal-political traditions spell different ideas of guarantee and threat in relation to what is “human,” and these are expressed in different languages that engage with the established power of the nation-state. The discourse of human rights is only one such language. — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 681

Categorization

• XREF: Complicates Cooper’s own rights-framing: if human-rights language is factional rather than universal, liberal appeals to it (whether by Cooper’s subjects or by Asad’s critics) are themselves historically situated. — connects to: Gender content is not exhausted by the powerlessness that shaped it. — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 258; The idea of universal human rights is one culture’s tradition, not a self-evident creed. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1668