Entanglement as Responsibility: Decolonizing Human Rights in <i>Choose Your Bearing</i>

This essay evaluates the discussion of Édouard Glissant’s ‘right to opacity’ found in Choose Your Bearing by Benjamin P. Davis. Here, I raise a series of questions about the scope and nature of the right to opacity as it relates to human rights discourse, decolonial theory, and phenomenology.

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Millennium Journal of International Studies
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2025-10-01
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https://doi.org/10.1177/03058298251381172
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Caribbean and African Literature and Culture
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Entanglement as Responsibility: Decolonizing Human Rights in Choose Your Bearing

Jared Highlen
Millennium Journal of International Studies
Caribbean and African Literature and Culture
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Entanglement as Responsibility: Decolonizing Human Rights in Choose Your Bearing

Jared Highlen
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Abstract

This essay evaluates the discussion of Édouard Glissant’s ‘right to opacity’ found in Choose Your Bearing by Benjamin P. Davis. Here, I raise a series of questions about the scope and nature of the right to opacity as it relates to human rights discourse, decolonial theory, and phenomenology.

Millennium Journal of International StudiesVol. 54(1)
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Caribbean and African Literature and Culture
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