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Human Rights from a Third World Perspective: Critique, History and International Law Unabridged edition


Human Rights from a Third World Perspective: Critique, History and International Law Unabridged edition

Hardback by Barreto, Jose-Manuel

Human Rights from a Third World Perspective: Critique, History and International Law

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ISBN:
9781443840583
Publication Date:
28 Mar 2013
Edition:
Unabridged edition
Publisher:
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Pages:
460 pages
Format:
Hardback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 27 - 29 May 2024
Human Rights from a Third World Perspective: Critique, History and International Law

Description

Globalization, interdisciplinarity, and the critique of the Eurocentric canon are transforming the theory and practice of human rights. This collection takes up the point of view of the colonized in order to unsettle and supplement the conventional understanding of human rights. Putting together insights coming from Decolonial Thinking, the Third World Approach to International Law (TWAIL), Radical Black Theory and Subaltern Studies, the authors construct a new history and theory of human rights, and a more comprehensive understanding of international human rights law in the background of modern colonialism and the struggle for global justice. An exercise of dialogical and interdisciplinary thinking, this collection of articles by leading scholars puts into conversation important areas of research on human rights, namely philosophy or theory of human rights, history, and constitutional and international law. This book combines critical consciousness and moral sensibility, and offers methods of interpretation or hermeneutical strategies to advance the project of decolonizing human rights, a veritable tool-box to create new Third-World discourses of human rights.

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