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Subject(s)

• Human rights [Browse]
• International relations [Browse]
• World politics [Browse]

Series

New approaches to conflict analysis [More in this series]

Summary note

Starting with the realities of abuse rather than the liberal architecture of rights, this text casts human rights as a language for probing the political dimensions of suffering.Three case studies are explored - Tiananmen Square, East Timor and the circumstances of indigenous Australians.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (212-220) and index.

Contents

• The Question of Human Rights
• Opening up conceptions of rights
• Human rights promotion and the 'foreign analogy'
• The construction of human rights: dominant approaches
• The social contract
• The international domain
• The pursuit of grounds
• Some theorists
• The 'Asian Way' debate
• Dialogue
• China--the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989
• The story
• The political context--'the state'
• The students
• Responses
• East Timor
• The history
• East Timor in Indonesia: the human rights situation
• Incorporation reversed
• Self-determination
• The status of Indigenous Australians
• Aboriginal health in Australia--current conditions
• 'The great Australian silence'
• Commonwealth Indigenous health policy--1970s-2000s
• Self-determination and citizenship.

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Other title(s)

University press scholarship online.

ISBN

0719061059

LCCN

^^2002072529

OCLC

49901799

RCP

H - S

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