The subject(s) of human rights : crises, violations, and Asian/American critique / edited by Cathy J Schlund-Vials, Guy Pierre Beauregard, Hsiu-chuan Lee.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schlund-Vials, Cathy J., 1974- editor.

Beauregard, Guy Pierre, editor.

Lee, Hsiu-chuan, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights--Asia.

Human rights.

Asia--Relations--North America.

Asia.

North America--Relations--Asia.

North America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (263 pages)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; Rome ; Tokyo : Temple University Press, [2020]

Summary:

The field of Asian American studies grew out of mid-twentieth century civil rights struggles, anti-war protests, and third world liberation movements. As a result, human rights issues have always been part of Asian American studies, though they've been largely peripheral to the interdiscipline. This edited collection bring Asian American studies to the center of human rights critique by engaging with "the possibilities and the limits of the stories that have circulated and the knowledge that has been produced around the broad topic of 'human rights' understood primarily as a post-1945 discourse that has profoundly affected the movements of people and relations of power across the Pacific." The collection brings together scholars from North America and Asia in order to approach the issue of human rights from both sides of the Pacific.

Contents:

Introduction: The subject(s) of human rights : recalibrating Asian/American critique / Guy Beauregard, Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, and Hsiu-Chuan Lee

Human rights and South Korea : U.S. imperialism, state ideologies, national politics, and camptown prostitution / Min-Jung Kim

After 1947 : the relative, the refugee, and the immigrant in the Chinese Canadian family narrative / Christopher Lee

The Vancouver Asahi connection : (re-)engagement of the families of returnees/deportees in Japanese Canadian history / Masumi Izumi

A journey to freedom : human rights discourse and refugee memory / Vinh Nguyen

"Every bombed village is my hometown" : James Baldwin's engagement with the American war in Vietnam / Yin Wang

Matronly maids and willful women : migrant domestic workers in the plural / Christopher B. Patterson

(De)humanizing labor : Southeast Asian migrant narratives in Taiwan / Grace Hui-Chuan Wu

Factories, farms, and fisheries : human trafficking and tethered subjectivities from Asia to the Pacific / Annie Isabel Fukushima

Re-framing Cambodia's killing fields : the commemorative limitations of atrocity tourism / Cathy J. Schlund-Vials

Reclaiming home and "righting" citizenships in postwar Sri Lanka : internal displacement, memory, and human rights / Dinidu Karunanayake

Toward an aesthetics and erotics of non-sovereign rights in Okinawa / Mayumo Inoue

Figuring North Korean lives : reading at the limits of human rights / Christine Kim

Afterword: The act of listening / Madeleine Thien.

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781439915745

1439915741

9781439915738

1439915733

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access