Negotiating Culture and Human Rights

Name: Negotiating Culture and Human Rights
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ISBN: 9780231120814

ISBN-10: 0231120818

ISBN-13: 9780231120814

Edition: 2001

Authors: Lynda Bell, Andrew J. Nathan, Ilan Peleg, Lynda L. Bell

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Negotiating Culture and Human Rightsprovides a new interdisciplinary approach to issues of cultural values and universal human rights. Central to the discussion is the "Asian values debate," so named because of the culturally relativist ideals embraced by some key Asian governments. By analyzing how cultural difference and human rights operate in theory and practice in such areas as legal equality, women's rights, and ethnicity, the contributors forge a new way of looking at these critical issues. They call their approach "chastened universalism," arguing that respect for others' values need not lead to sterile, relativist views. Ultimately the authors conclude that it is less important to…

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List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 2/22/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 364
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.91" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Contributors



Human Rights and the Asian Values Debate


Introduction: Culture and Human Rights




Who Produces Asian Identity? Discourse, Discrimination, and Chinese Peasant Women in the Quest for Human Rights




Culturally Informed Arguments for Universal Human Rights



Getting Beyond Cross-Talk: Why Persisting Disagreements Are Philosophically Nonfatal




Western Defensiveness and the Defense of Rights: A Communitarian Alternative




Rights Hunting in Non-Western Traditions




Human Rights Law and Its Limits



How a Liberal Jurist Defends the Bangkok Declaration




Are Women Human? The Promise and Perils of "Women's Rights as Human Rights"




Re-Positioning Human Rights Discourse on "Asian" Perspectives




Rights Discourse and Power Relations



Human Rights and the Discourse on Universality: A Chinese Historical Perspective




Jihad Over Human Rights, Human Rights as Jihad: Clash of Universals




Universalization of the Rejection of Human Rights: Russia's Case




Ethnicity and Human Rights in Contemporary Democracies: Israel and Other Cases




Walking Two Roads: Reading Human Rights in Contemporary Chinese Fiction




Beyond Universalism and Relativism



Universalism: A Particularistic Account




Dedichotomizing Discourse: Three Gorges, Two Cultures, One Nature




Universal Declaration on Human Rights



Bangkok Declaration on Human Rights



Bangkok NGO Declaration on Human Rights



Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women


Index