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The future of human rights /

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"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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Main Author: Baxi, Upendra
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Edition:3rd ed. with new preface.
Series:Oxford India paperbacks.
Subjects:
Human rights.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international)
Human rights
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. An Age of Human Rights?
  • - 2. Two Notions of Human Rights: 'Modern' and 'Contemporary'
  • - 3. The Practices of 'Contemporary' Human Rights?
  • - 4. Too Many or Too Few Human Rights
  • - 5. Critiquing Rights: Politics of Identity and Difference
  • - 6. What is Living and Dead in Relativism?
  • - 7. Human Rights Movements and Human Rights Markets
  • - 8. The Emergence of an Alternate Paradigm of Human Rights
  • - 9. Market Fundamentalisms: Business Ethics at the Altar of Human Rights.