Human rights from a Third World perspective : critique, history and international law / edited by José-Manuel Barreto.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barreto, José-Manuel, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights--Developing countries.

Human rights.

Physical Description:

463p.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, [England] : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.

Summary:

Globalization, interdisciplinarity, and the critique of the Eurocentric canon are transforming the theory and practice of human rights. This collection takes up the point of view of the colonized in order to unsettle and supplement the conventional understanding of human rights. Putting together insights coming from Decolonial Thinking, the Third World Approach to International Law (TWAIL), Radical Black Theory and Subaltern Studies, the authors construct a new history and theory of human rights, and a more comprehensive understanding of international human rights law in the background of modern colonialism and the struggle for global justice. An exercise of dialogical and interdisciplinary thinking, this collection of articles by leading scholars puts into conversation important areas of research on human rights, namely philosophy or theory of human rights, history, and constitutional and international law. This book combines critical consciousness and moral sensibility, and offers methods of interpretation or hermeneutical strategies to advance the project of decolonizing human rights, a veritable tool-box to create new Third-World discourses of human rights.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index at the end of each chapters.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4438-6645-8

OCLC:

890530518