Human Rights and the Arts: Perspectives on Global Asia (Global Encounters: Studies in Comparative Political Theory) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0739184733 ISBN 13: 9780739184738

Verlag: Lexington Books, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

Human Rights and the Arts: Perspectives on Global Asia approaches human rights issues from the perspective of artists and writers in global Asia. By focusing on the interventions of writers, artists, filmmakers, and dramatists, the book moves toward a new understanding of human rights that shifts the discussion of contexts and subjects away from the binaries of cultural relativism and political sovereignty. From Ai Wei Wei and Michael Ondaatje, to Umar Kayam, Saryang Kim, Lia Zixin, and Noor Zaheer, among others, this volume takes its lead from global Asian artists, powerfully re-orienting thinking about human rights subjects and contexts to include the physical, spiritual, social, ecological, cultural, and the transnational. Looking at a range of work from Tibet, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, China, Bangladesh, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and Macau as well as Asian diasporic communities, this book puts forward an understanding of global Asia that underscores "Asia" as a global site. It also highlights the continuing importance of nation-states and specific geographical entities, while stressing the ways that the human rights subject breaks out of these boundaries.

Many of these works are included in the companion volume Human Rights and the Arts in Global Asia: An Anthology, also published by Lexington Books.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Susan J. Henders is assistant professor of political science at York University (Canada) and a member of the York Centre for Asian Research.

Lily Cho is associate professor of English at York University.

Theodore W. Goossen is professor of humanities at York University and founding member of the Department of Contemporary Literary Studies at the University of Tokyo.

Jooyeon Rhee is assistant professor of Asian studies and comparative literature at Pennsylvania State University, University Park.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0739184733
• ISBN 13: 9780739184738
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 274
• Herausgeber: Henders Susan J., Cho Lily
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