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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245 | 1 | 4 | |a The human rights state : |b justice within and beyond sovereign nations / |c Benjamin Gregg |
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300 | |a viii, 283 pages ; |c 24 cm | ||
490 | 1 | |a Pennsylvania studies in human rights | |
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 | |
520 | |a 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, the Pacific, and the Americas must be deployed to deconstruct--and to reconstruct--a universal bundle of rights that all human societies can claim as theirs | ||
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