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The Human Rights Paradox: Universality and its Discontents (Critical Human Rights)
. Ed(S): Stern, Steven J.; Straus, Scott
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Description for The Human Rights Paradox: Universality and its Discontents (Critical Human Rights)
paperback. By identifying and embracing the paradox that human rights are at once a transcendent value belonging to all and a reality forged by particular people rooted in specific places, The Human Rights Paradox advances a new way to understand the history, contemporary politics, advocacy, and future prospects of human rights. Editor(s): Stern, Steven J.; Straus, Scott. Series: Critical Human Rights. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: JFFE; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 367.
Human rights are paradoxical. Advocates across the world invoke the idea that such rights belong to all people, no matter who or where they are. But since humans can only realize their rights in particular places, human rights are both always and never universal.
The Human Rights Paradox is the first book to fully embrace this contradiction and reframe human rights as history, contemporary social advocacy, and future prospect. In case studies that span Africa, Latin America, South and Southeast Asia, and the United States, contributors carefully illuminate how social actors create the imperative of human rights through relationships ... Read more
Human rights are paradoxical. Advocates across the world invoke the idea that such rights belong to all people, no matter who or where they are. But since humans can only realize their rights in particular places, human rights are both always and never universal.
The Human Rights Paradox is the first book to fully embrace this contradiction and reframe human rights as history, contemporary social advocacy, and future prospect. In case studies that span Africa, Latin America, South and Southeast Asia, and the United States, contributors carefully illuminate how social actors create the imperative of human rights through relationships ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press United States
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
Series
Critical Human Rights
Number of Pages
260
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299299743
SKU
V9780299299743
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About . Ed(S): Stern, Steven J.; Straus, Scott
Steve J. Stern is the Alberto Flores Galindo and Hilldale Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA. He received the Bolton-Johnson Prize from the Conference in Latin American History in 2007 and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012. Scott Straus is a professor of political science and international studies at ... Read more
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