The human rights state : justice within and beyond sovereign nations /

Makau Mutua contends that if the human rights movement is to succeed, it must move away from Eurocentrism as a civilizing crusade and attack on non-European peoples. Only a genuine multicultural approach to human rights can make it truly universal. Indigenous, non-European traditions of Asia, Africa...

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Main Author: Gregg, Benjamin Greenwood, 1954-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Series:Pennsylvania studies in human rights
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index 
505 0 |a Part 1. The human rights state: politics by metaphor -- 1. Human rights as metaphor -- 2. Human rights in a backpack -- 3. The body as human rights boundary -- Part 2. The human rights state through persuasion, not coercion -- 4. Teaching human rights as a cognitive style -- 5. Developing human rights commitment in post-authoritarian societies -- 6. Digital technology as resource for the human rights project -- Part 3. Defense of the human rights state in the face of challenges -- 7. Human rights patriotism -- 8. A human right not to democracy but to the rule of law -- 9. Human rights and humanitarian intervention -- Coda: A community of nation states practicing domestic cosmopolitanism 
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