The human rights state : justice within and beyond sovereign nations / Benjamin Gregg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gregg, Benjamin Greenwood, 1954- author.

Series:

Pennsylvania studies in human rights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights.

Physical Description:

viii, 283 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]

Summary:

Makau Mutua contends that if the human rights movement is to succeed, it must move away from Eurocentrism as a civilizing crusade and. attack on non-European peoples- Only a genuine multicultural approach to human rights can make it truly universal. Indigenous, non-European traditions of Asia, Africa, the Pacific, and the Americas must be deployed to deconstruct-and to reconstruct-a universal bundle of rights that all human societies can claim as theirs. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I The Human Rights State: Politics by Metaphor

Chapter 1 Human Rights as Metaphor 23

Chapter 2 Human Rights in a Backpack 42

Chapter 3 The Body as Human Rights Boundary 61

Part II The Human Rights State Through Persuasion, Not Coercion

Chapter 4 Teaching Human Rights as a Cognitive Style 83

Chapter 5 Developing Human Rights Commitment in Post-Authoritarian Societies 109

Chapter 6 Digital Technology as Resource for the Human Rights Project 132

Part III Defense of the Human Rights State in the Face of Challenges

Chapter 7 Human Rights Patriotism 157

Chapter 8 A Human Right Not to Democracy but to the Rule of Law 174

Chapter 9 Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention 191.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-266) and index.

ISBN:

9780812248050

0812248058

OCLC:

920551799