The Future Of Human Rights
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Contents crisp, clean and tightly bound. Block clean. Cover slightly discoloured in places with some creasing to spine. Dust jacket in very good condition with some very minor creasing to edges. The languages and the logics of human rights have been deeply contested - regionally, nationally and globally. The second half of the twentieth century, justly celebrated as an age of human rights, has been marked both by explosive articulations of human rights standards and norms and by their sustained critique. This work explores the achievements and shortfalls of human rights and their future in an era of globalisation. While celebrating the rhetoric of the 'universality' of human rights. Upendra Baxi alerts us to the promises, as well as the perils, of statist and emancipatory discourses. Human rights proclamations and movements owe their emergence to increased sensitivity to the politics of cruelty beginning with the Holocaust and Hiroshima Nagasaki. The 'New' social movements such as women's struggle to feminise human rights practices, postmodernist critiques of universalist idiom of human rights, and movements in the politics of identity - present inaugural ways of relating human suffering to human rights. This work explores the paradigm shift in human rights theory and practice that subordinates, even sacrifices, human rights of individual human beings and subaltern peoples to the needs and interests of the managers and agents of globalisation. It traces the community of concerns that now reshape the activist energy and power of human rights movements everywhere. - description from blurb.
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