The future of human rights
"This monograph critically examines the contemporary discourses on the nature of 'human rights', their histories, the myths that are embedded in them, and contributes an alternative reading of those histories by placing the concerns and interests of the 'people in struggle and communities of resistance' at centre stage. It examines the cold reality that despite the last century being justly being describe as the century of human rights, the 'rightless and suffering peoples' still remain; it analyzes the gulf between the actuality and possibilities for the future. It analyzes the significance of the UN and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and goes on to study the more contemporary issues such as women's struggle to feminize the understanding and practice of human rights, the post-modernist critique of the universal idiom of human rights and, most pertinently for the current world scene, it analyzes the impact of globalization on the human rights movement."--Publisher description
Print Book, English, 2008
3rd ed. with new preface View all formats and editions
Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2008
xliv, 339 pages ; 22 cm.
9780195690439, 9780198084969, 0195690435, 019808496X
191929686
1. An Age of Human Rights?
- 2. Two Notions of Human Rights: 'Modern' and 'Contemporary'
- 3. The Practices of 'Contemporary' Human Rights?
- 4. Too Many or Too Few Human Rights
- 5. Critiquing Rights: Politics of Identity and Difference
- 6. What is Living and Dead in Relativism?
- 7. Human Rights Movements and Human Rights Markets
- 8. The Emergence of an Alternate Paradigm of Human Rights
- 9. Market Fundamentalisms: Business Ethics at the Altar of Human Rights