Original scientific paper
Talking Culture, Crying Health, Hoping for Nothing: Surviving the Many Flyers above the Human Rights Global Cuckoo’s Nests
Sanja M. Špoljar Vržina
Abstract
Today’s talk about any health issue is part of a wider web of neoliberal destructive processes of which all fall into the
category of discriminating populations and their cultures, downgrading their right to life and violating their human
dignity. Poor health, poverty stricken health systems and screaming epidemiological factors make just one more triangle
of the successive visible consequences of destruction that equals to the violation of human dignity, to begin with. Yet no
correction is possible since every problem is tied to the double standard perceivement of Human Rights. The author is engaged
in presenting a need of a deeper auto-reflexive work-through of our human approachments and biological realities.
This urgent stance is based on the new, set by Kalny (2009) and Baxi (2006), orientation towards a critical reading of
the Human Rights and the advocacy toward differentiating between the politics for human rights and politics of human
rights (the later being the politics of rights instrumentalization). Health and its un-sustainability is one of the most dramatic
areas in which this differentiation of ones approaches is dramatically felt and needed. The end conclusions are envisioned
to support the already existing field of a number of dedicated critical medical anthropologists, as well as authors
across all fields, in their demand for, nothing more or less than, the dignity for the populations that they/we daily represent.
Keywords
culture; health; Human Rights; splitting; neoliberalism; consumerism
Hrčak ID:
75581
URI
Publication date:
30.12.2011.
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