Format:
XII, 294 S.
,
23 cm
ISBN:
0230222765
,
9780230222762
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction: "silence" and human rights
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How oppression thrives where truth is not allowed a voice. The Spanish polemic about the American Indians
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No more no less. What slaves thought about their humanity
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The rites of dispossession : medieval and modern
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"That all men are created equal" : "rights talk" and exclusion in North America
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Is the right to sovereignty a human right? The idea of sovereign freedom and the Jewish state
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A continuity of silence in Serbia : from the irrelevance of human rights to collective crime, and beyond
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Population exchanges of the Balkans and Asia Minor at the fin de siecle. The imposition of political subjectivities in the modern world order
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Silencing to protect : the debate over women's rights in France and Canada
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All too meaningful silences : the European Court of Human Rights' disappointing case law on racial discrimination
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Silencing the sovereignty of the poor in Haiti
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Rights beyond the urban-rural divide : South Africa's Landless People's Movement and the creation of a landless subjectivity
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Conclusion: human rights in contemporary global perspective
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Epilogue: whom may we speak for, with, and after? Re-silencing human rights
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
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Law
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Sociology
Keywords:
Menschenrecht
;
Rassendiskriminierung
;
Geschichte
;
Konferenzschrift
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0901/2008030138-b.html
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0901/2008030138-d.html
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0901/2008030138-t.html
Author information:
Shilliam, Robbie 1969-