Human Rights : Concepts, Contests, Contingencies.
Today the language of human rights, if not human rights themselves, is nearly universal. Human Rights brings together essays that attend to both the allure and criticism of human rights. They examine contestation and contingency in today's human rights politics and help us rethink some of the b...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Michigan Press
2009.
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| Series: | Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- The Unsettled Status of Human Rights: An Introduction; Two Concepts of Self-Determination; Cultural Choice and the Revision of Freedom; Durkheim Revisited: Human Rights as the Moral Discourse for the Postcolonial, Post-Cold War World; The Legal Protection of Human Rights in Africa: How to Do More with Less; Contributors; Index.