Human rights from a Third World perspective : critique, history and international law - Barreto, José-Manuel. (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Human rights -- Developing countries; Human rights; Developing countries