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Where Human Rights Take Place: Spaces of Rights and Responsibilities Beyond Territory (EXC 3039)

Third Party Funds Group - Sub project

Acronym: EXC 3039

Start date : 15.02.2026

End date : 31.12.2026

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Scientific Abstract

From the perspective of the Cluster’s analytical
framework, the workshop directly engages with all
three core dimensions of human rights norms,
institutions, and practices (Who, What, and How). First,
it addresses the question of who holds rights and bears
responsibilities by examining how the reorganisation of
spaces through e.g. transnational networks, digital
infrastructures, logistical systems, and planetary
interdependencies redistributes agency and obligation
beyond territorially bounded states, including private
actors, non-state institutions, and more-than-human
constellations. Second, the workshop contributes to
debates about what human rights protect by exploring
how the content and scope of rights are reshaped in and
through relational, infrastructural, digital, and
planetary spaces, thereby raising questions about
access, exclusion, and the reconfiguration of
established rights claims. Third, it speaks to the
dimension of how human rights are realized and
accounted for by analyzing how spatial arrangements
condition modes of implementation, governance, and
accountability, particularly in contexts where
responsibility is fragmented, decision-making is mediated by technical systems, and enforcement
mechanisms are decoupled from territorial jurisdiction.
By bringing these dimensions into a shared spatial
perspective, the workshop seeks to make explicit how
transformations of space cut across and connect
foundational questions of rights-holders, normative
scope, and accountability in contemporary human
rights research.

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