A narratable self as addressed by human rights

Abstract

The paper extends the critique in earlier research of human rights as exclusive of otherness and difference by introducing the work of Adriana Cavarero (2000) on a narratable self. Hence, the formation of human rights is thus about the relations between different narratable selves, not just Western ones. A narrative learning, drawing on Cavarero (2000) , shifts the focus in human rights learning from learning about the other to exposing one’s life story narrative through relationality.