Human Rights : A Political and Cultural Critique /

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In 1948 the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and with it a profusion of norms, processes, and institutions to define, promote, and protect human rights. Today virtually every cause seeks to cloak itself in the righteous language of rights. But even so, this universal...

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Autor principal: Mutua, Makau (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Bürgerliche Gesellschaft
Menschenrechtsorganisation
Nichtstaatliche Organisation
Human rights.
Democratization.
Civil society.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Human Rights.
Societe civile.
Democratisation.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international)
Ostafrika
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1 Human Rights as a Metaphor
  • The Metaphor of Human Rights
  • The Grand Narrative of Human Rights
  • The Metaphor of the Savage
  • The Metaphor of the Victim
  • The Metaphor of the Savior
  • 2 Human Rights as an Ideology
  • The Authors of Human Rights
  • A Holy Trinity: Liberalism, Democracy, and Human Rights
  • The Conventional Doctrinalists
  • The Conceptualizers
  • The Cultural Pluralists
  • Political Strategists and Instrumentalists
  • 3 Human Rights and the African FingerprintAfrica in a Rights Universe
  • Human Rights in Precolonial Africa
  • The Dialectic of Rights and Duties
  • The Duty/Rights Conception
  • Whither Africa?
  • 4 Human Rights, Religion, and Proselytism
  • The Problem of Religious Rights
  • Demonizing the Other
  • Proselytization in Africa
  • The Legal Invisibility of Indigenous Religions
  • Ideals Versus Realities
  • The Moral Equivalency of Cultures
  • 5 The African State, Human Rights, and Religion
  • Religion and African Statehood
  • Identity Disorientation
  • The Culture of Silence and PostcolonialismCounterpenetration as a Farce
  • Benin Returns to Its Roots
  • 6 The Limits of Rights Discourse
  • South Africa: The Human Rights State
  • The Rights Framework as an ANC Strategy: A Snapshot of Apartheid
  • The Evolution of a Rights Approach
  • The Compromise of the Interim Constitution
  • The 1996 Constitution as a Normative Continuum
  • The ANC's Gradualist Rights Approach
  • Land Reform as a Central Plank of the Struggle
  • Women in Post-Apartheid South Africa
  • The Status and Orientation of Post-Apartheid Courts
  • Humanizing the Instruments of CoercionRights Discourse-Not a Panacea
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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