Decolonization, self-determination, and the rise of global human rights politics / edited by A. Dirk Moses, Marco Duranti, Roland Burke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moses, A. Dirk, editor.

Duranti, Marco, editor.

Burke, Roland, editor.

Series:

Human rights in history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights--History--20th century.

Human rights.

History.

Decolonization--History--20th century.

Decolonization.

Self-determination, National--History--20th century.

Self-determination, National.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 435 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

This volume presents the first global history of human rights politics in the age of decolonization. The conflict between independence movements and colonial powers shaped the global human rights order that emerged after the Second World War. It was also critical to the genesis of contemporary human rights organizations and humanitarian movements. Anti-colonial forces mobilized human rights and other rights language in their campaigns for self-determination. In response, European empires harnessed the new international politics of human rights for their own ends, claiming that their rule, with its promise of 'development,' was the authentic vehicle for realizing them. Ranging from the postwar partitions and the wars of independence to Indigenous rights activism and post-colonial memory, this volume offers new insights into the history and legacies of human rights, self-determination, and empire to the present day.

Contents:

Introduction: Human rights, empire, and after / Roland Burke, Marco Duranti, and A. Dirk Moses

Seeking the political kingdom : universal human rights and the anti-colonial movement in Africa / Bonny Ibhawoh

Decolonizing the United Nations : anti-colonialism and human rights in the French Empire / Marco Duranti

The French Red Cross, decolonization, and humanitarianism during the Algerian War / Jennifer Johnson

Connecting indigenous rights to human rights in the Anglo settler states : another 1970s story / Miranda Johnson

Privileging the Cold War over decolonization : the US emphasis on political rights / Mary Ann Heiss

Cutting out the ulcer and washing away the incubus of the past : genocide prevention through population transfer / A. Dirk Moses

Codifying minority rights : postcolonial constitutionalism in Burma, Ceylon, and India / Cindy Ewing

Between ambitions and caution : India, human rights and self-determination at the United Nations / Raphaëlle Khan

"From this era of passionate self-discovery" : Norman Manley, human rights, and the end of colonial rule in Jamacia / Steven L.B. Jensen

Re-entering histories of past imperial violence : Kenya, Indonesia, and the reach of transitional justice / Michael Humphrey

The inventors of human rights in Africa : Portugal, late colonialism, and the UN human rights regime / Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo and José Pedro Monteiro

"A world made safe for diversity" : apartheid and the language of human rights, progress, and pluralism / Roland Burke

Between humanitarian rights and human rights : René Cassin, architect of universality, diplomat of French Empire / Jay Winter

The end of the Vietnam War and the rise of human rights / Barbara Keys

Decolonizing the Geneva Conventions : national liberation and the development of humanitarian law / Eleanor Davey

Liberté sans Frontières, French humanitarianism, and the neoliberal critique of Third Worldism / Jessica Whyte.

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ISBN:

9781108783170

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