Human rights from a Third World perspective : critique, history and international law / edited by José-Manuel Barreto.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.
Description
ix, 453 pages ; 22 cm

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    Contents
    • Decolonial strategies and dialogue in the human rights field / José-Manuel Barreto
    • Who speaks for the "human" in human rights? / Walter Mignolo
    • Provincializing human rights? The Heideggerian legacy from Charles Malik to Dipesh Chakrabarty / Martin Woessner
    • The legacy of slavery: white humanities and its subject: a manifesto / Sabine Broeck
    • "Moral optics": biopolitics, torture and the imperial gaze of war photography / Eduardo Mendieta
    • Imperialism and decolonization as scenarios of human rights history / José-Manuel Barreto
    • Las Casas, Vitoria and Suárez, 1514-1617 / Enrique Dussel
    • The dual Haitian revolution and the making of freedom in modernity / Anthony Bogues
    • Love, justice and natural law: on Martin Luther King, Jr. and human rights / Vincent W. Lloyd
    • Human rights, southern voices: Yash Ghai and Upendra Baxi / William Twining
    • The rule of law in India / Upendra Baxi
    • Eddie Mabo and Namibia: land reform and precolonial land rights / Nico Horn
    • Universalizing human rights: the role of small states in the construction of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights / Susan Waltz
    • Forging a global culture of human rights: origins and prospects of the International Bill of Rights / Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat
    • Mode d'assujetissement: Charles Malik, Carlos Romulo and the emergence of the United Nations human rights regime / Glenn Mitoma.
    ISBN
    • 9781443840583
    • 1443840580
    LCCN
    2013375322
    OCLC
    847332913
    Other standard number
    • 60001783428
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