This book advances practical protection of human rights, and challenge claims of western monopoly of human rights discourse.
Author: Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naim
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108417136
Category: Law
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This book advances practical protection of human rights, and challenge claims of western monopoly of human rights discourse.This is a key factor in what I mean by “decolonizing human rights,” whereby the principles of these rights and their rationale cannot signify freedom and justice until they are liberated from colonial domination and exploitation.
Author: Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naim
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108265799
Category: Political Science
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In his extensive body of work, Professor Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naim challenges both historical interpretations of Islamic Sharia and neo-colonial understanding of human rights. To advance the rationale of scholarship for social change, An-Naim proposes advancing the universality of human rights through internal discourse within Islamic and African societies and cross-cultural dialogue among human cultures. This book proposes a transformation from human rights organized around a state determined practice to one that is focused on a people-centric approach that empowers individuals to decide how human rights will be understood and integrated into their communities. Decolonizing Human Rights aims to illustrate the decisive role of human agency on the subject of change, without implying that Islamic or any other society are exceptionally disposed to politically motivated violence and consequent profound political instability.This book combines critical consciousness and moral sensibility, and offers methods of interpretation or hermeneutical strategies to advance the project of decolonizing human rights, a veritable tool-box to create new Third-World discourses ...
Author: José-Manuel Barreto
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 9781443866453
Category: Philosophy
Page: 460
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Globalization, interdisciplinarity, and the critique of the Eurocentric canon are transforming the theory and practice of human rights. This collection takes up the point of view of the colonized in order to unsettle and supplement the conventional understanding of human rights. Putting together insights coming from Decolonial Thinking, the Third World Approach to International Law (TWAIL), Radical Black Theory and Subaltern Studies, the authors construct a new history and theory of human rights, and a more comprehensive understanding of international human rights law in the background of modern colonialism and the struggle for global justice. An exercise of dialogical and interdisciplinary thinking, this collection of articles by leading scholars puts into conversation important areas of research on human rights, namely philosophy or theory of human rights, history, and constitutional and international law. This book combines critical consciousness and moral sensibility, and offers methods of interpretation or hermeneutical strategies to advance the project of decolonizing human rights, a veritable tool-box to create new Third-World discourses of human rights.Decolonizing knowledge and practice about human rights and global education represents (1) a recognition of the dominance of Eurocentric epistemologies within human rights curriculum and instruction, and adapting them to include ...
Author: Gloria T Alter
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9781538161944
Category:
Page: 339
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This book combines theory, practice, and purpose. Readers will encounter the work of leading scholars in human rights education to see how HRE is understood, taught, lived, and practiced in the Global North and Global South.Do norms of justice, human rights and democracy enable disenfranchised communities?
Author: Nikita Dhawan
Publisher: Verlag Barbara Budrich
ISBN: 9783847403142
Category: Political Science
Page: 335
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Do norms of justice, human rights and democracy enable disenfranchised communities? Or do they simply reinforce relations of domination between those who are constituted as dispensers of justice, rights and aid, and those who are coded as receivers? Critical race theorists, feminists and queer and postcolonial theorists confront these questions and offer critical perspectives.... first two “generations” of individual civil and social rights, denying their validity for the nonWestern world. ... culturalists isthevalue ofthe human rights work of international organizations during the decolonization process.
Author: D. Maul
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9780230358638
Category: Political Science
Page: 412
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An innovative diplomatic and intellectual history of decolonization, post-colonial nation building and international human rights and development discourses, this study of the role of the ILO during 1940–70 opens up new perspectives on the significance of international organisations as actors in the history of the 20th century.minorities and subnational groups, the pressing questions of how to provide individual and collective rights were dealt with ... rights discourse in Asia that first paralleled, and then intersected with human rights projects at the UN.
Author: Roland Burke
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108805193
Category: History
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This volume presents the first global history of human rights politics in the age of decolonization. The conflict between independence movements and colonial powers shaped the global human rights order that emerged after the Second World War. It was also critical to the genesis of contemporary human rights organizations and humanitarian movements. Anti-colonial forces mobilized human rights and other rights language in their campaigns for self-determination. In response, European empires harnessed the new international politics of human rights for their own ends, claiming that their rule, with its promise of 'development,' was the authentic vehicle for realizing them. Ranging from the postwar partitions and the wars of independence to Indigenous rights activism and post-colonial memory, this volume offers new insights into the history and legacies of human rights, self-determination, and empire to the present day.This volume investigates the development of the concepts and practices of "humanity" from the sixteenth century up to the present.
Author: Judith Becker
Publisher:
ISBN: 3666101453
Category: Electronic books
Page: 324
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This volume investigates the development of the concepts and practices of "humanity" from the sixteenth century up to the present. By taking a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, the contributers focus on Europe as well as Europe's relations to other world regions in the process that shaped "humanity". They show how this emerging concept led to the overcoming of fundamental divisions in many spheres on the one hand and the formation of new hierarchies on the other.decolonizing human rights to be advanced (Barreto 2012) and HRE, in turn, will also need to become “decolonizing” (Yang 2012). Generally speaking, colonialism denotes the exploitation of human beings and nonhuman worlds in order to ...
Author: Michalinos Zembylas
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9781350045637
Category: Education
Page: 256
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Critical Human Rights, Citizenship, and Democracy Education presents new scholarly research that views human rights, democracy and citizenship education as a critical project. Written by an international line-up of contributors including academics from Canada, Cyprus, Ireland, South Africa, Sweden, the UK and the USA, this book provides a cross-section of theoretical work as well as case studies on the challenges and possibilities of bringing together notions of human rights, democracy and citizenship in education. The contributors cultivate a critical view of human rights, democracy and citizenship and revisit these categories to advance socially just educational praxis and highlight ground-breaking case studies that redefine the purposes and approaches in education for a better alignment with the justice-oriented objectives of human rights, democracy and citizenship education. A critical response, reflecting on the issues raised throughout the book, provides a conclusion. This is essential reading for those researching these pedagogical forms and will be valuable to practitioners and activists in fields as diverse as education, law, sociology, health sciences and social work and international development.