Format:
Online-Ressource (viii, 259 p)
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0415304091
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0415304105
Series Statement:
A.S.A. monographs 40
Content:
In the West we frequently pay lip service to universal notions of human rights. But do we ever consider how these work in local contexts and across diverse cultural and ethical structures? Do human rights agendas address the problems many people face, or are they more often the imposition of Western values onto largely non-Western communities?Human Rights in a Global Perspective develops a social critique of rights agendas. It provides an understanding of how rights discussions and institutions can construct certain types of subjects such as victims and perpetrators, and certain types of act
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: the social life of rights; Representing the common good: the limits of legal language; Two approaches to rights and religion in contemporary France; This turbulent priest: contesting religious rights and the state in the Tibetan Shugden controversy; Legal/illegal counterpoints: subjecthood and subjectivity in an unrecognized state; Anthropologists as expert witnesses: political asylum cases involving Sri Lankan Tamils; Voices from the margins: knowledge and interpellation in Israeli human rights protests
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The uncertain political limits of cultural claims: minority rights politics in south-east EuropeUsing rights to measure wrongs: a case study of method and moral in the work of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Reproduction, health, rights: connections and disconnections; Rights and the poor; The rights of being human; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415304092
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Human Rights in Global Perspective : Anthropological Studies of Rights, Claims and Entitlements
Language:
English
