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A good life : human rights and encounters with modernity / Mary Edmunds.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Edmunds, Mary, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pat, John, 1966-1983.
- Australian Competition & Consumer Commission.
- United Nations World Conference Against Racism (2001 : Durban).
- Business--Australia.
- Business.
- Competition, Unfair--Australia.
- Competition, Unfair.
- Human rights--Australia.
- Human rights.
- Spain.
- Thailand.
- Local Subjects:
- Pat, John, 1966-1983.
- United Nations World Conference Against Racism (2001 : Durban).
- Genre:
- Cross-cultural studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (314 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Canberra : Australian National University, E Press, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book is a story. It's a story about ordinary people in very different parts of the world dealing with rapid change in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It's about times of turbulent and violent social upheaval and rupture with the past. It's about modern times.
- Contents:
- Preliminary
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on names and spellings
- List of maps
- Introduction
- 1. Culture, morality, modernity, and the transformation of social imaginaries
- Part I. Tradition and transformation in in a non-colonised state: Thailand
- 2. Continuities and crisis
- 3. Dictatorship and democracy: Competing social imaginaries
- Part II. Tradition and transformation in a non-colonised state: Spain
- 4. Old orders and new: The nuns as historical actors
- 5. 'Quiero ser protagonista de mi vida': 'I want to be the main actor in my own life'
- Part III. Colonised people and the nation-state: Aboriginal Australia
- 6. Ordinary people enduring extraordinary things
- 7. A winnin' battle
- Part IV. Modernity and human rights
- 8. Durban 2001, the United Nations World Conference against Racism
- 9. Human rights and the promise of a good life
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 13, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 9781922144676
- 1922144673
- OCLC:
- 883233741
- Publisher Number:
- 10.26530/OAPEN_459938
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