Human Rights in Postcolonial India (Ethics, Human Rights and Global Political Thought) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138488429 ISBN 13: 9781138488427

Verlag: Routledge India, 2018

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This volume looks at human rights in independent India through frameworks comparable to those in other postcolonial nations in the Global South. It examines wide ranging issues that need immediate attention such as those related to disability, violence, torture, education, LGBT, neoliberalism, and social justice.

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Om Prakash Dwivedi is Assistant Professor in English at Shri Ramswaroop Memorial University, Lucknow, India. He has co-authored Re-Orientalism and Indian Writing in English (2014) and co-edited Indian Writing in English and the Global Literary Market (2014). Dwivedi is also the editor of Tracing the New Indian Diaspora (2014).

V. G. Julie Rajan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, USA. She has lectured in the Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as on political violence and women's human rights for the Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University, USA. Her research interests include women and militarism, violence against women, terrorism and human rights. Rajan's monographs include Women Suicide Bombers: Narratives of Violence (2011) and Al Qaeda's Global Crisis: The Islamic State, Takfir, and the Genocide of Muslims (2015). Among her edited collections are Violence and Gender in the Globalized World: The Intimate and the Extimate (2008, 2015) and Myth and Violence in the Contemporary Female Text: New Cassandras (2011). Rajan's current research concerns genocide, gendercide and femicide in the territories claimed by The Islamic State globally.

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• Verlag: Routledge India
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1138488429
• ISBN 13: 9781138488427
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 346
• Herausgeber: Dwivedi Om Prakash, Rajan V. G. Julie
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