The future of human rights /
"This monograph critically examines the contemporary discourses on the nature of 'human rights', their histories, the myths that are embedded in them, and contributes an alternative reading of those histories by placing the concerns and interests of the 'people in struggle and co...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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New Delhi ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2008.
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| Edition: | 3rd ed. with new preface. |
| Series: | Oxford India paperbacks.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "This monograph critically examines the contemporary discourses on the nature of 'human rights', their histories, the myths that are embedded in them, and contributes an alternative reading of those histories by placing the concerns and interests of the 'people in struggle and communities of resistance' at centre stage. It examines the cold reality that despite the last century being justly being describe as the century of human rights, the 'rightless and suffering peoples' still remain; it analyzes the gulf between the actuality and possibilities for the future. It analyzes the significance of the UN and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and goes on to study the more contemporary issues such as women's struggle to feminize the understanding and practice of human rights, the post-modernist critique of the universal idiom of human rights and, most pertinently for the current world scene, it analyzes the impact of globalization on the human rights movement."--Publisher description |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xliv, 339 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780199918195 0199918198 9780199081059 0199081050 |