Human rights in translation : intercultural pathways / edited by Michal Jan Rozbicki.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rozbicki, Michał, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights--Cross-cultural studies.

Human rights.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 236 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, 2018.

Contents:

Human rights and the grammar of interculturality / Michal Jan Rozbicki

Human rights against human rights : Universal Declaration of Human Rights, interpretative discrepancies, and intercultural transpositions / Mario Ricca

Transgender rights in Pakistan : global, colonial, and Islamic perspectives / Jeffrey A. Redding

The off-centered hub of secularism : religion inside human rights projections and quotidian life / Melisa Vazquez

Migration as a metaphor for religious conversion : a reinterpretation of freedom of conscience and belief in colonial India and Pakistan / Shazia Ahmad

Protestant work ethic revisited : the ephemeral nature of commitment to human rights / Hisako Matsuo and Rachel Santon

Politics, religion and debt : translating lives into normative frameworks for asylum seekers in Italy / Tommaso Sbriccoli

The role of human rights frameworks in refugee host state integration / Rachel Santon

Defending liberty from tyranny in Dostoevsky's Siberia : the impact of captivity on an intercultural consensus regarding human rights / Elizabeth Blake

The ASEAN human rights declaration as a case of human rights translation / Marcella Ferri

The color curtain : Richard Wright on race, rights and western values / Anders Walker.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Human rights in translation

ISBN:

9781498581417

1498581412

OCLC:

1048949848