International Human Rights, Decolonisation and Globalisation: Becoming Human
- ISBN-10
- 1134511949
- ISBN-13
- 9781134511945
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003-09-02
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Author
- Shelley Wright
Description
Covering a diverse range of topics, case studies and theories, the author undertakes a critique of the principal assumptions on which the existing international human rights regime has been constructed. She argues that the decolonization of human rights, and the creation of a global community that is conducive to the well-being of all humans, will require a radical restructuring of our ways of thinking, researching and writing. In contributing to this restructuring she brings together feminist and indigenous approaches as well as postmodern and post-colonial scholarship, engaging directly with some of the prevailing orthodoxies, such as 'universality', 'the individual', 'self-determination', 'cultural relativism', 'globalization' and 'civil society'.
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