Human Rights, Southern Voices
Francis Deng, Abdullahi An-Na'im, Yash Ghai and Upendra Baxi
Part of Law in Context
- Editor: William Twining, University College London
- Date Published: September 2009
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521113212
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A just international order and a healthy cosmopolitan discipline of law need to include perspectives that take account of the standpoints, interests, concerns and beliefs of non-Western people and traditions. The dominant scholarly and activist discourses about human rights have developed largely without reference to these other viewpoints. Claims about universality sit uneasily with ignorance of other traditions and parochial or ethnocentric tendencies. The object of the book is to make accessible the ideas of four jurists who present distinct 'Southern' perspectives on human rights.
Read more- Presents the key works of four Southern jurists in their own words
- Sets the works and authors in their historical and political contexts
- Raises issues of contemporary importance in world politics
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'The book on the whole offers a good insight into the similarities and differences. It helps to compare each particular stance to the other and allows relating them to those patterns of thought that are typical for western approaches in the study of human rights … Twining's edition makes available the particular view of four legal scholars from a non-Western background to a Western audience. Different social contexts, socio-cultural and activist experiences shaped the mind set with the help of which they understand, investigate and evaluate law and justice. This pluralist approach counts as an invitation to make academic discourse on international human rights less parochial and ethnocentric. Vergassung und Recht in Ubersee
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- Date Published: September 2009
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521113212
- length: 248 pages
- dimensions: 253 x 180 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.65kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Francis Deng
3. Abdullahi An-Na'im
4. Yash Ghai
5. Upendra Baxi
6. Conclusion.Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses
- Ethics in International Relations
- Gender and the Constitution
- Human Rights and International Relations
- Human Rights in Comparative Perspective
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