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Globalization, interdisciplinarity, and the critique of the Eurocentric canon are transforming the theory and practice of human rights. This collection takes up the point of view of the colonized in order to unsettle and supplement the conventional understanding of human rights. Putting together insights coming from Decolonial Thinking, the Third World Approach to International Law (TWAIL), Radical Black Theory and Subaltern Studies, the authors construct a new history and theory of human rights, and a more comprehensive understanding of international human rights law in the background of mode
Inhalt:
Globalization, interdisciplinarity, and the critique of the Eurocentric canon are transforming the theory and practice of human rights. This collection takes up the point of view of the colonized in order to unsettle and supplement the conventional understanding of human rights. Putting together insights coming from Decolonial Thinking, the Third World Approach to International Law (TWAIL), Radical Black Theory and Subaltern Studies, the authors construct a new history and theory of human rig
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Decolonial strategies and dialogue in the human rights field
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Who speaks for the "human" in human rights?
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Provincializing human rights? The Heideggerian legacy from Charles Malik to Dipesh Chakrabarty
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The legacy of slavery: white humanities and its subject: a manifesto
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"Moral optics": biopolitics, torture and the imperial gaze of war photography
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Imperialism and decolonization as scenarios of human rights history
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Las Casas, Vitoria and Suárez, 1514-1617
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The dual Haitian revolution and the making of freedom in modernity
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Love, justice and natural law: on Martin Luther King, Jr. and human rights
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Human rights, southern voices: Yash Ghai and Upendra Baxi
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The rule of law in India
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Eddie Mabo and Namibia: land reform and precolonial land rights
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Universalizing human rights: the role of small states in the construction of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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Forging a global culture of human rights: origins and prospects of the International Bill of Rights
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Mode d'assujetissement: Charles Malik, Carlos Romulo and the emergence of the United Nations human rights regime
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TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I: CRITIQUE OF THE THEORY OF HUMAN RIGHTS; CHAPTER ONE - WHO SPEAKS FOR THE "HUMAN" IN HUMAN RIGHTS?; CHAPTER TWO - PROVINCIALIZING HUMAN RIGHTS?; CHAPTER THREE - THE LEGACY OF SLAVERY; CHAPTER FOUR - 'MORAL OPTICS'; PART II: SIGNPOSTS FOR AN ALTERNATIVE HISTORY OF HUMAN RIGHTS; CHAPTER FIVE - IMPERIALISM AND DECOLONIZATION AS SCENARIOS OF HUMAN RIGHTS HISTORY; CHAPTER SIX - LAS CASAS, VITORIA AND SUAREZ, 1514-1617; CHAPTER SEVEN - THE DUAL HAITIAN REVOLUTION AND THE MAKING OF FREEDOM IN MODERNITY
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CHAPTER EIGHT - LOVE, JUSTICE AND NATURAL LAWCHAPTER NINE - HUMAN RIGHTS, SOUTHERN VOICES; PART III: DECOLONIZING CONSTITUTIONALAND INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW; CHAPTER TEN - THE RULE OF LAW IN INDIA; CHAPTER ELEVEN - EDDIE MABO AND NAMIBIA LAND REFORM AND PRE-COLONIAL LAND RIGHTS; CHAPTER TWELVE - UNIVERSALIZING HUMAN RIGHTS; CHAPTER THIRTEEN - FORGING A GLOBAL CULTURE OF HUMAN RIGHTS; CHAPTER FOURTEEN - MODE D'ASSUJETTISSEMENT; POSTFACE; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX OF NAMES
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ISBN 1443840580
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ISBN 9781443840583
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Human rights from a Third World perspective Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2013 ISBN 1443840580
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ISBN 9781443840583
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Englisch
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