Negotiating culture and human rights /

"Negotiating Culture and Human Rights provides a new interdisciplinary approach to issues of cultural values and universal human rights. Central to the discussion is the "Asian values debate," so named because of the culturally relativist ideals embraced by some key Asian governments....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bell, Lynda Schaefer (Editor ), Nathan, Andrew J. (Andrew James) (Editor ), Peleg, Ilan, 1944- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2001]
Temas:
Human rights > Cross-cultural studies.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international) > Études transculturelles.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > Diplomacy.
Human rights.
Menschenrecht
Universalität
Kulturvergleich
Mensenrechten.
Relativisme.
Culturele aspecten.
Droits de l'homme > Etudes transculturelles.
Cross-cultural studies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: culture and human rights / Lynda S. Bell, Andrew J. Nathan, Ilan Peleg
  • Who produces Asian identity? : discourse, discrimination, and Chinese peasant women in the quest for human rights / Lynda S. Bell
  • Getting beyond cross-talk: why persisting disagreements are philosophically nonfatal / Michael G. Barnhart
  • Western defensiveness and the defense of rights: a communitarian alternative / Kenneth E. Morris
  • Rights hunting in non-western traditions / Steven J. Hood
  • How a liberal jurist defends the Bangkok Declaration / Michael W. Dowdle
  • Are women human? The promise and perils of "women's rights as human rights" / Lucinda Joy Peach
  • Re-positioning human rights discourse on "Asian" perspectives / Sharon K. Hom
  • Human rights and the discourse on universality: a Chinese historical perspective / Xiaoqun Xu
  • Jihad over human rights, human rights as jihad: clash of universals / Farhat Haq
  • Universalization of the rejection of human rights: Russia's case / Dmitry Shlapentokh
  • Ethnicity and human rights in contemporary democracies: Israel and other cases / Ilan Peleg
  • Walking two roads: reading human rights in contemporary Chinese fiction / Tomas N. Santos
  • Universalism: a particularistic account / Andrew J. Nathan
  • Dedichotomizing discourse: three gorges, two cultures, one nature / Jennifer R. Goodman.

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