Human rights from a Third World perspective : critique, history and international law / edited by José-Manuel Barreto.

Contributor(s):

Barreto, José-Manuel

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013Description: 1 online resource (ix, 453 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781443866453
1443866458

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Human rights from a Third World perspectiveDDC classification:

323.091724 23

LOC classification:

JC599.D44 H866 2013eb

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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 -- The 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 -- The 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 -- The 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 ...

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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 ...

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