Terretta, Meredith2016-07-122016-07-122016-06-122368-7266http://hdl.handle.net/10393/34991http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-821Meredith Terretta shows how historical inquiry contributes to an understanding of contemporary human rights as contingent. Using 20th century Africa as a case study, Terretta focuses on transregional activism to demonstrate that rights claims from colonial settings preceded a discursive structure of universal human rights emerging in 1948. Meredith Terretta montre comment l’analyse historique contribue à éclairer le caractère conjoncturel des droits humains contemporains. Étudiant l’Afrique du 20e siècle, Terretta se focalise sur l’activisme transrégional en vue de démontrer que, bien avant l’émergence en 1948 d’un cadre discursif sur l'universalité des droits humains, le cadre colonial était déjà le théâtre de revendications de droits.enhuman rightsanticolonialismself-determinationactivismactivist lawyerstransregional advocacyAfricalegal pluralisminternational lawLeague of Nations mandate systemUnited Nations Trust TerritoriesUniversal Declaration of Human Rightshuman rights historyhistorical contingencyrights claimsActivism in the Shadows of Universalism: Where Is Human Rights, Then and Now?Working Paper