Mr Ioannis Klaras

Research project: Socio-Economic Rights and Resistance: Theory and Practice

Abstract

My research is intended to examine what the relation is between resistance and SERs, how they interact and how they can be used to promote empowerment and help signal the end of oppression and injustice. For this purpose, an examination of the production and promotion of inequalities will be attempted, as well as the current position of SERs internationally. The second analysis will be towards identifying a theory of justice, which may serve as the moral and political background of SERs theory. Accordingly, an examination of the theory of resistance will be followed regarding questions like what it is aiming for, against what it is functioning and how it does it. Thirdly, an evaluation will be attempted on how the legal framework creates the space of action and how protects the status quo, ie the hegemonic ideology. Fourthly, paradigms of cooperation between SERs theory and the theory of resistance, which were successful in terms of countering and contesting the oppressive power, will be identified. Lastly, a way of cooperation and a potential set of actions that can be implemented will be discussed based on these paradigms.