Human Rights from a Third World Perspective : Critique, History and International Law.
Title:
Human Rights from a Third World Perspective : Critique, History and International Law.
Author:
Barreto, José-Manuel.
ISBN:
9781443866453
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (463 pages)
Contents:
TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I: CRITIQUE OF THE THEORY OF HUMAN RIGHTS -- CHAPTER ONE - WHO SPEAKS FOR THE "HUMAN" IN HUMAN RIGHTS? -- CHAPTER TWO - PROVINCIALIZING HUMAN RIGHTS? -- CHAPTER THREE - THE LEGACY OF SLAVERY -- CHAPTER FOUR - 'MORAL OPTICS' -- PART II: SIGNPOSTS FOR AN ALTERNATIVE HISTORY OF HUMAN RIGHTS -- CHAPTER FIVE - IMPERIALISM AND DECOLONIZATION AS SCENARIOS OF HUMAN RIGHTS HISTORY -- CHAPTER SIX - LAS CASAS, VITORIA AND SUAREZ, 1514-1617 -- CHAPTER SEVEN - THE DUAL HAITIAN REVOLUTION AND THE MAKING OF FREEDOM IN MODERNITY -- CHAPTER EIGHT - LOVE, JUSTICE AND NATURAL LAW -- CHAPTER NINE - HUMAN RIGHTS, SOUTHERN VOICES -- PART III: DECOLONIZING CONSTITUTIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW -- CHAPTER TEN - THE RULE OF LAW IN INDIA -- CHAPTER ELEVEN - EDDIE MABO AND NAMIBIA LAND REFORM AND PRE-COLONIAL LAND RIGHTS -- CHAPTER TWELVE - UNIVERSALIZING HUMAN RIGHTS -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN - FORGING A GLOBAL CULTURE OF HUMAN RIGHTS -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN - MODE D'ASSUJETTISSEMENT -- POSTFACE -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX OF NAMES.
Abstract:
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 rig...
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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