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Human rights from a Third World perspective : critique, history and international law /

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 ins...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Barreto, José-Manuel
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.