caa a22 4500 378898396 CHVBK 20180305123512.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20041028xx s 000 0 eng 10.2202/1554-4419.1011 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.2202/1554-4419.1011 Ansari Nazish 1Georgetown University Law Center, nla4@law.georgetown.edu Malaysia: Limitations of the Human Rights Discourse and the Deployment of Rights in a Religious Identity Debate [Elektronische Daten] [Nazish Ansari] Articulating the possible limits or shortcomings of the international human rights movement, David Kennedy highlights the fact that Human Rights discourses distract attention away from the economic realm and towards a re-entrenchment of the individual's relationship with the state and the negotiation of political and procedural rights. Even in a country like Malaysia that is credited as an economic and development miracle, the human rights discourse has distracted attention away from the underlying problems of ethnic and economic stratification and directed energy and resources towards the realization of personal and political "Rights" that will not be capable of being exercised in a meaningful way without economic redistribution. Furthermore, the Human Rights discourse has been transplanted in the context of a religious identity debate, which has both shaped and limited its discursive boundaries, as well as its ability to articulate and realize demands. The combination of the limitations of Human Rights discourse with its operation within the religious identity debate has meant that the liberal reformers in Malaysia have been severely limited in their ability to implement meaningful changes. Consideration of the women's rights movement in Malaysia aptly demonstrates that way that rights discourses have compromised the success of liberal reformers. ©2011 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston Malaysia nationallicence Human Rights nationallicence Women's Rights nationallicence Muslim World Journal of Human Rights De Gruyter 1/1(2004-10-28) 1:1 2004 1 mwjhr https://doi.org/10.2202/1554-4419.1011 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2202/1554-4419.1011 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Ansari Nazish 1Georgetown University Law Center, nla4@law.georgetown.edu NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Muslim World Journal of Human Rights De Gruyter 1/1(2004-10-28) 1:1 2004 1 mwjhr CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter