Truth Claims: Representations and Human Rights - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0813530520 ISBN 13: 9780813530529

Casa editrice: Rutgers Univ Pr, 2002

Riassunto

Among the signal developments of the last third of the twentieth century has been the emergence of a new politics of human rights. The transnational circulation of norms, networks, and representations has advanced human rights claims in ways that have reshaped global practices. Just as much as the transnational flow of capital, the new human rights politics are part of the phenomenon that has come to be termed globalization. Shifting the focus from the sovereignty of the nation to the rights of individuals, regardless of nationality, the interplay between the local and the global in these new human rights claims are fundamentally redrawing the boundaries between the rights of individuals, states, and the international community. Truth Claims brings together for the first time some of the best new work from a variety of disciplinary and geographic perspectives exploring the making of human rights claims and the cultural politics of their representations. All of the essays, whether dealing with the state and its victims, receptions of human rights claims, or the status of transnational rights claims in the era of globalization, explore the potentialities of an expansive humanistic framework. Here, the authors move beyond the terms - and the limitations - of the universalism/relativism debate that has so defined existing human rights literature.

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Book by Mark Philip Bradley Patrice Petro

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Rutgers Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0813530520
• ISBN 13: 9780813530529
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 285
• Redattore: Bradley Mark Philip, Petro Patrice
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