Good Life : Human rights and encounters with modernity /

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This book is a story. It's a story about ordinary people in very different parts of the world dealing with rapid change in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It's about times of turbulent and violent social upheaval and rupture with the past. It's about modern times.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Edmunds, Mary
Autor Corporativo: Open Access Publishing in European Networks
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Place of publication not identified] : ANU Press, Canberra, 2013.
Temas:
Business.
Affaires.
Social Science > Anthropology > Cultural & Social.
Business
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preliminary
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes on names and spellings
  • List of maps
  • Introduction
  • Introduction
  • 1. Culture, morality, modernity, and the transformation of social imaginaries
  • Part I. Tradition and transformation in in a non-colonised state: Thailand
  • 2. Continuities and crisis
  • 3. Dictatorship and democracy: Competing social imaginaries
  • Part II. Tradition and transformation in a non-colonised state: Spain
  • 4. Old orders and new: The nuns as historical actors
  • 5. 'Quiero ser protagonista de mi vida': 'I want to be the main actor in my own life'
  • Part III. Colonised people and the nation-state: Aboriginal Australia
  • 6. Ordinary people enduring extraordinary things
  • 7. A winnin' battle
  • Part IV. Modernity and human rights
  • 8. Durban 2001, the United Nations World Conference against Racism
  • 9. Human rights and the promise of a good life
  • References
  • Index.

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