Human Rights in Cross-Cultural Perspectives : A Quest for Consensus / Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

An-Na'im, Abdullahi Ahmed, Editor.

Series:

Pennsylvania studies in human rights.

Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 479 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2010]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Human rights violations are perpetrated in all parts of the world, and the universal reaction to such atrocities is overwhelmingly one of horror and sadness. Yet, as Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im and his contributors attest, our viewpoint is clouded and biased by the expectations native to our own culture. How do other cultures view human rights issues? Can an analysis of these issues through multiple viewpoints, both cross-cultural and indigenous, help us reinterpret and reconstruct prevailing theories of human rights?

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Toward a Cross-Cultural Approach to Defining International Standards of Human Rights

2. Cultural Foundations for the International Protection of Human Rights

3. Making A Goddess of Democracy from Loose Sand

4. Dignity, Community, and Human Rights

5. Postliberal Strands in Western Human Rights Theory

6. Should Communities Have Rights? Reflections on Liberal Individualism

7. A Marxian Approach to Human Rights

8. North American Indian Perspectives on Human Rights

9. Aboriginal Communities, Aboriginal Rights, and the Human Rights System in Canada

10. Political Culture and Gross Human Rights Violations in Latin America

11. Custom Is Not a Thing, It Is a Path

12. Cultural Legitimacy in the Formulation and Implementation of Human Rights Law and Policy in Australia

13. Considering Gender Arc Human Rights for Women, Too? An Australian Case

14. Right to Self-Determination: A Basic Human Right Concerning Cultural Survival. The Case of the Sami and the Scandinavian State

15. Prospects for Research on the Cultural Legitimacy of Human Rights

Conclusion

Bibliography

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9786613210678

9781283210676

1283210673

9780812200195

0812200195

OCLC:

636605669