Beyond Rights Talk And Culture Talk
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Beyond Rights Talk And Culture Talk
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Author : Mahmood Mamdani
language : en
Publisher: New Africa Books
Release Date : 2000
Beyond Rights Talk And Culture Talk written by Mahmood Mamdani and has been published by New Africa Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Political Science categories.
Rights in the post-reform era: Kimberle Crenshaw
Beyond Rights Talk And Culture Talk
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Author : Mahmood Mamdani
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 2000
Beyond Rights Talk And Culture Talk written by Mahmood Mamdani and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Social Science categories.
These essays bring together comparative material from experiences as diverse as Tanzania, Nigerian, India, South Africa, and the US. They have the merit of illuminating vital tensions in a period of transition and contention: on the one hand, between individual freedom and culture freedom, and on the other between freedom and justice. By placing each in this worldly context, they analyze the politics of culture talk and race talk.
Imperialism And Human Rights
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Author : Bonny Ibhawoh
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2008-01-03
Imperialism And Human Rights written by Bonny Ibhawoh and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-03 with History categories.
2007 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title In this seminal study, Bonny Ibhawoh investigates the links between European imperialism and human rights discourses in African history. Using British-colonized Nigeria as a case study, he examines how diverse interest groups within colonial society deployed the language of rights and liberties to serve varied socioeconomic and political ends. Ibhawoh challenges the linear progressivism that dominates human rights scholarship by arguing that, in the colonial African context, rights discourses were not simple monolithic or progressive narratives. They served both to insulate and legitimize power just as much as they facilitated transformative processes. Drawing extensively on archival material, this book shows how the language of rights, like that of "civilization" and "modernity," became an important part of the discourses deployed to rationalize and legitimize empire.
Whose Right It Is Anyway
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Author : Kristina A. Bentley
language : en
Publisher: HSRC Press
Release Date : 2003
Whose Right It Is Anyway written by Kristina A. Bentley and has been published by HSRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Political Science categories.
This theoretical inquiry into the limitations of liberal and multicultural compromise in the political arena focuses on the geopolitical situation in South Africa, where especially adamant collective views threaten the rights of individuals, minority communities, and the tenets of human rights that are enshrined in its constitution.
The Shade Of New Leaves
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Author : Manfred O. Hinz
language : en
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Release Date : 2006
The Shade Of New Leaves written by Manfred O. Hinz and has been published by LIT Verlag Münster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Law categories.
"Omudile muua ohapo; epangelo liua ohamba". Freely translated, this proverb of the Ovakwanyama of northern Namibia means: "New leaves produce a good shade; the laws of a king are always as good as new". The proverb paints a picture of wisdom to express the dialectical relationship between continuity and change in customary law. Since royal orders are supposed not to change from one king to the next, they are always as good as new, reads the explanatory note to the proverb by the anthropologist Loeb, who recorded the proverb. Traditional authority is like a tree standing on its roots, rooted in the tradition created by the ancestors of the ruler and the community. These roots remain firm, stable and unchanged, not so the concrete manifestation of authority that changes and responds to changes of the environment. This makes that new leaves are produced by the rooted tree. The new leaves are new and old. They are old, because in structure, colour and their capacity to protect by giving shade, they are more or less like the leaves of last year and the year before; they are new because they react to the challenge of seasons. The Shade of New Leaves emerged out of an international conference on the living reality of customary law and traditional governance held in Windhoek in 2004. The conference was organised by the Centre for Applied Social Sciences and the Human Rights and Documentation Centre, both affiliated to the Faculty of Law of the University of Namibia, in co-operation with the Law Departments of the Universities of Bremen, Germany, and the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. The contributions to this book are grouped into six parts: Part 1: Legal pluralism, traditional governance and the challenge of the democratic constitutional order * Part 2: Traditional administration of justice revisited * Part 3: Ascertaining customary law: prerequisite of good governance in traditional authority * Part 4: Legal philosophy, African philosophy and African jurisprudence * Part 5: Research, training and teaching of customary law * Part 6: Afterthoughts
Beyond The Law
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Author : Frans Viljoen
language : en
Publisher: PULP
Release Date : 2012
Beyond The Law written by Frans Viljoen and has been published by PULP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Human rights categories.
Corporations And Citizenship
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Author : Greg Urban
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2014-05-26
Corporations And Citizenship written by Greg Urban and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-26 with Business & Economics categories.
President Theodore Roosevelt once proclaimed, "Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions, and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with those institutions." But while corporations are ostensibly regulated by citizens through their governments, the firms in turn regulate many aspects of social and political life for individuals beyond their own employees and the communities that support them. Corporations are endowed with many of the same rights as citizens, such as freedom of speech, but are not themselves typically constituted around ideals of national belonging and democracy. In the wake of the global financial collapse of 2008, the question of what relationship corporations should have to governing institutions has only increased in urgency. As a democratically sanctioned social institution, should a corporation operate primarily toward profit accumulation or should its proper goal be to provision society with needed goods and services? Corporations and Citizenship addresses the role of modern for-profit corporations as a distinctive kind of social formation within democratic national states. Scholars of legal studies, business ethics, politics, history, and anthropology bring their perspectives to bear on particular case studies, such as Enron and Wall Street, as well as broader issues of belonging, social responsibility, for-profit higher education, and regulation. Together, these essays establish a complex and detailed understanding of the ways corporations contribute positively to human well-being as well as the dangers that they pose. Contributors: Joel Bakan, Jean Comaroff, John Comaroff, Cynthia Estlund, Louis Galambos, Rosalie Genova, Peter Gourevitch, Karen Ho, Nien-hê Hsieh, Walter Licht, Jonathan R. Macey, Hirokazu Miyazaki, Lynn Sharp Paine, Katharina Pistor, Amy J. Sepinwall, Jeffery Smith, Jeffrey L. Sturchio, Greg Urban.
The Power Of Human Rights The Human Rights Of Power
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Author : Louiza Odysseos
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-10-11
The Power Of Human Rights The Human Rights Of Power written by Louiza Odysseos and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-11 with Political Science categories.
The contributions to this volume eschew the long-held approach of either dismissing human rights as politically compromised or glorifying them as a priori progressive in enabling resistance. Drawing on plural social theoretic and philosophical literatures – and a multiplicity of empirical domains – they illuminate the multi-layered and intricate relationship of human rights and power. They highlight human rights’ incitement of new subjects and modes of political action, marked by an often unnoticed duality and indeterminacy. Epistemologically distancing themselves from purely deductive, theory-driven approaches, the contributors explore these linkages through historically specific rights struggles. This, in turn, substantiates the commitment to avoid reifying the ‘Third World’ as merely the terrain of ‘fieldwork’, proposing it, instead, as a legitimate and necessary site of theorising. This book was originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.
Ethics Human Rights And Culture
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Author : X. Li
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2006-01-27
Ethics Human Rights And Culture written by X. Li and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-27 with Philosophy categories.
Is it possible, given culturally incongruent perspectives, to validate any common standards of behaviour? Is cultural relativity be a problem when cultures are porous? Can we implement human rights without incorporating the idea into the fabric of culture? This book addresses such questions with an inventive and original understanding of culture.
Abortion In The American Imagination
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Author : Karen Weingarten
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2014-07-11
Abortion In The American Imagination written by Karen Weingarten and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-11 with Social Science categories.
The public debate on abortion stretches back much further than Roe v. Wade, to long before the terms “pro-choice” and “pro-life” were ever invented. Yet the ways Americans discussed abortion in the early decades of the twentieth century had little in common with our now-entrenched debates about personal responsibility and individual autonomy. Abortion in the American Imagination returns to the moment when American writers first dared to broach the controversial subject of abortion. What was once a topic avoided by polite society, only discussed in vague euphemisms behind closed doors, suddenly became open to vigorous public debate as it was represented everywhere from sensationalistic melodramas to treatises on social reform. Literary scholar and cultural historian Karen Weingarten shows how these discussions were remarkably fluid and far-ranging, touching upon issues of eugenics, economics, race, and gender roles. Weingarten traces the discourses on abortion across a wide array of media, putting fiction by canonical writers like William Faulkner, Edith Wharton, and Langston Hughes into conversation with the era’s films, newspaper articles, and activist rhetoric. By doing so, she exposes not only the ways that public perceptions of abortion changed over the course of the twentieth century, but also the ways in which these abortion debates shaped our very sense of what it means to be an American.
