Disability and the Right to Have Rights

Authors

  • Tobin Siebers

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18061/dsq.v27i1/2.13

Keywords:

Hannah Arendt, right to have rights, human rights discourse, disability rights, citizenship rights

Abstract

A major debate over human rights discourse concerns whether human rights should be guaranteed by the nation-state based on citizenship or whether they should be guaranteed internationally on the basis of the status of the rights-bearing person as human. This essay intervenes in this debate, via an analysis of Hannah Arendt's idea of the right to have rights, to argue that disability, as a critical indicator of universal human frailty, should provide the basis for international human rights.

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Published

2007-03-15

How to Cite

Siebers, T. (2007). Disability and the Right to Have Rights. Disability Studies Quarterly, 27(1/2). https://doi.org/10.18061/dsq.v27i1/2.13