Negotiating Culture and Human Rights

Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-231-12081-4
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 364 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 603 g

Negotiating Culture and Human Rights provides 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 discover pre-existing common values across cultures than to create them through dialogue and debate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bell, Lynda

Nathan, Andrew J.

Peleg, Ilan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

AcknowledgmentsContributorsPart 1. Human Rights and the Asian Values Debate Introduction. Culture and Human Rights, by Lynda S. Bell, Andrew J. Nathan, and Ilan Peleg1. Who Produces Asian Identity? Discourse, Discrimination, and Chinese Peasant Women in the Quest for Human Rights, by Lynda S. BellPart 2. Culturally Informed Arguments for Universal Human Rights 2. Getting Beyond Cross-Talk: Why Persisting Disagreements are Philosophically Nonfatal, by Michael G. Barnhart3. Western Defensiveness and the Defense of Rights: A Communitarian Alternative, by Kenneth E. Morris4. Rights Hunting in Non-Western Traditions, by Steven J. HoodPart 3. Human Rights Law and Its Limits 5. How a Liberal Jurist Defends the Bangkok Declaration, by Michael W. Dowdle6. Are Women Human? The Promise and Perils of "Women's Rights as Human Rights", by Lucinda Joy Peach7. Re-Positioning Human Rights Discourse on "Asian" Perspectives, by Sharon K. HomPart 4. Rights Discourse and Power Relations 8. Human Rights and the Discourse on Universality: A Chinese Historical Perspective, by Xiaoqun Xu9. Jihad Over Human Rights, Human Rights as Jihad: Clash of Universals, by Farhat Haq10. Universalization of the Rejection of Human Rights: Russia's Case, by Dmitry Shlapentokh11. Ethnicity and Human Rights in Contemporary Democracies: Israel and Other Cases, by Ilan Peleg12. Walking Two Roads: Reading Human Rights in Contemporary Chinese Fiction, by Thomas N. SantosPart 5. Beyond Universalism and Relativism 13. Universalism: A Particularistic Account, by Andrew J. Nathan14. Dedichotomizing Discourse: Three Gorges, Two Cultures, One Nature, by Jennifer R. GoodmanAppendix A: Universal Declaration on Human RightsAppendix B: Bangkok Declaration on Human RightsAppendix C: Bangkok NGO Declaration on Human RightsAppendix D: Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against WomenIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Lynda Bell is associate professor of history at the University of California, Riverside. Andrew J. Nathan is professor of political science at Columbia University and author of China's Crisis and China's Transition (both by Columbia). Ilan Peleg is Charles A. Dana Professor of Goverment and Law at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania.