Human Rights, Southern Voices: Francis Deng, Abdullahi An-Na'im, Yash Ghai and Upendra Baxi (Law in Context) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521130263 ISBN 13: 9780521130264

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

This anthology contains a variety of Southern perspectives on human rights and contemporary issues relating to Islam, African custom, constitution making and abuses of the language of human rights.

Über diesen Titel

Críticas:

'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

Reseña del editor:

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.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0521130263
• ISBN 13: 9780521130264
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 248
• Herausgeber: Twining William