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Published: 22nd January 2001
ISBN: 9780231120814
Number Of Pages: 364
For Ages: 22+ years old
"Negotiating Culture and Human Rights" provides a new interdisciplinary approach to issues of cultural values and universal human rights. Central to the discussion is the "Asian values debate," so named because of the culturally relativist ideals embraced by some key Asian governments. By analyzing how cultural difference and human rights operate in theory and practice in such areas as legal equality, women's rights, and ethnicity, the contributors forge a new way of looking at these critical issues. They call their approach "chastened universalism," arguing that respect for others' values need not lead to sterile, relativist views. Ultimately the authors conclude that it is less important to discover pre-existing common values across cultures than to create them through dialogue and debate
Rich and complex. International Affairs
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Contributors | p. xi |
| Human Rights and the Asian Values Debate | |
| Introduction: Culture and Human Rights | p. 3 |
| Who Produces Asian Identity? Discourse, Discrimination, and Chinese Peasant Women in the Quest for Human Rights | p. 21 |
| Culturally Informed Arguments for Universal Human Rights | |
| Getting Beyond Cross-Talk: Why Persisting Disagreements Are Philosophically Nonfatal | p. 45 |
| Western Defensiveness and the Defense of Rights: A Communitarian Alternative | p. 68 |
| Rights Hunting in Non-Western Traditions | p. 96 |
| Human Rights Law and Its Limits | |
| How a Liberal Jurist Defends the Bangkok Declaration | p. 125 |
| Are Women Human? The Promise and Perils of "Women's Rights as Human Rights" | p. 153 |
| Re-Positioning Human Rights Discourse on "Asian" Perspectives | p. 197 |
| Rights Discourse and Power Relations | |
| Human Rights and the Discourse on Universality: A Chinese Historical Perspective | p. 217 |
| Jihad Over Human Rights, Human Rights as Jihad: Clash of Universals | p. 242 |
| Universalization of the Rejection of Human Rights: Russia's Case | p. 258 |
| Ethnicity and Human Rights in Contemporary Democracies: Israel and Other Cases | p. 303 |
| Walking Two Roads: Reading Human Rights in Contemporary Chinese Fiction | p. 334 |
| Beyond Universalism and Relativism | |
| Universalism: A Particularistic Account | p. 349 |
| Dedichotomizing Discourse: Three Gorges, Two Cultures, One Nature | p. 369 |
| Universal Declaration on Human Rights | p. 383 |
| Bangkok Declaration on Human Rights | p. 390 |
| Bangkok NGO Declaration on Human Rights | p. 395 |
| Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women | p. 404 |
| Index | p. 415 |
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ISBN: 9780231120814
ISBN-10: 0231120818
Audience:
Professional
For Ages: 22+ years old
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 364
Published: 22nd January 2001
Publisher: COLUMBIA UNIV PR
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (cm): 22.91 x 15.19
x 2.29
Weight (kg): 0.59
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