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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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2016]
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| Series: | Pennsylvania studies in human rights
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Table of Contents:
- 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