| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
x, 254 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
"This book is based on papers presented at a seminar "Asian values versus human rights revisited" that was organized at the Renvall Institute, University of Helsinki in May 2007"--Pref. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-248) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Damien Kingsbury and Leena Avonius -- Universalism and Exceptionalism in 'Asia' / Damien Kingsbury -- Asia Values? Why Not, But How? / Jau-hwa Chen -- Human Rights from the Left: The Early Chinese Democracy Movement and Reconciling Human Rights with Marxism / Lauri Paltemaa -- Chinese Values and Human Rights / Ann Kent -- From Marsinah to Munir: Grounding Human Rights in Indonesia / Leena Avonius -- From Asian Values to Singapore Exceptionalism / Laurence Wai-Teng Leong -- The Notions of Human Rights in Thai Context: Rhetoric or Substance on Asian Values--Naruemon Thabchumpon -- Asian Values and Responses to Human Rights in Indonesia / Knut Asplund -- Asian Values, Gender and Culture-Specific Development / Paivi Koskinen -- Colonial Modernity and the Nation-State: Debates in Japan in the Post-Cold War Years / Mikako Iwatake -- Walking the Line between 'War on Terror' and the Defence of Human Rights / Reetta Toivanen. |
| Summary |
"This book offers a critical reassessment of the 'Asian values' debate, which dominated the human rights discourse in the late 1990s, and a reappraisal of the human rights situation in Asia since then. In this book Asian and non-Asian scholars contextualize the 'Asian values' debate and examine in what ways the issues raised then continue to trouble Asian societies. Human rights are seen both in the context of political developments in individual Asian countries as well as in relation to global issues such as the Global War on Terror. The book challenges the reader to critically examine human rights rhetoric and practice both in Asia and globally." -- Book cover. |
| Subject |
Human rights -- Asia -- Congresses.
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Human rights. |
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Asia. |
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Social values -- Asia -- Congresses.
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Social values. |
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Human rights. |
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Kingsbury, Damien.
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Avonius, Leena, 1966-
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| ISBN |
0230606393 hardback |
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9780230606395 hardback |
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