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1 online resource (ix, 453 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Decolonial strategies and dialogue in the human rights field / José-Manuel Barreto -- Who speaks for the "human" in human rights? / Walter Mignolo -- Provincializing human rights? The Heideggerian legacy from Charles Malik to Dipesh Chakrabarty / Martin Woessner -- Legacy of slavery: white humanities and its subject: a manifesto / Sabine Broeck -- "Moral optics": biopolitics, torture and the imperial gaze of war photography / Eduardo Mendieta -- Imperialism and decolonization as scenarios of human rights history / José-Manuel Barreto -- Las Casas, Vitoria and Suárez, 1514-1617 / Enrique Dussel -- Dual Haitian revolution and the making of freedom in modernity / Anthony Bogues -- Love, justice and natural law: on Martin Luther King, Jr. and human rights / Vincent W. Lloyd -- Human rights, southern voices: Yash Ghai and Upendra Baxi / William Twining -- Rule of law in India / Upendra Baxi -- Eddie Mabo and Namibia: land reform and precolonial land rights / Nico Horn -- Universalizing human rights: the role of small states in the construction of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights / Susan Waltz -- Forging a global culture of human rights: origins and prospects of the International Bill of Rights / Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat -- Mode d'assujetissement: Charles Malik, Carlos Romulo and the emergence of the United Nations human rights regime / Glenn Mitoma. |
| Summary |
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 ... |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Human rights -- Developing countries.
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Human rights. |
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Developing countries. |
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Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Human rights. |
| Added Author |
Barreto, José-Manuel.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Human rights from a Third World perspective 9781443840583 (DLC) 2013375322 (OCoLC)847332913 |
| ISBN |
9781443866453 (electronic book) |
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1443866458 (electronic book) |
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9781443840583 |
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1443840580 |
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