Human Rights and Cultural Diversity
Core Issues and Cases
Seiten
2017
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
9781474401166 (ISBN)
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
9781474401166 (ISBN)
Can universal human rights be reconciled with cultural differences? This textbook introduces the core issues for students and addresses them through an interdisciplinary analysis of key case studies. Throughout the book, a new philosophical framework gives as a model for combining universalism and difference in a single global vision.
How can universal human rights be reconciled with respect for wide cultural differences? This textbook introduces the core issues for students and addresses them through an interdisciplinary analysis of key case studies. Throughout the book, an alternative philosophical framework is offered as a model through which universalism and difference can be reconciled into a single global vision.
Cast studies include: the rights of women, ethnic and national minorities, indigenous peoples and religious communities.
Issues addressed include: FGM, LGBT rights, freedom of speech and the rights of indigenous peoples
Student features include: core questions, suggestions for further reading and two-colour layout
How can universal human rights be reconciled with respect for wide cultural differences? This textbook introduces the core issues for students and addresses them through an interdisciplinary analysis of key case studies. Throughout the book, an alternative philosophical framework is offered as a model through which universalism and difference can be reconciled into a single global vision.
Cast studies include: the rights of women, ethnic and national minorities, indigenous peoples and religious communities.
Issues addressed include: FGM, LGBT rights, freedom of speech and the rights of indigenous peoples
Student features include: core questions, suggestions for further reading and two-colour layout
Andrew Fagan is Director of Postgraduate Studies at the University of Essex. He is an internationally renowned human rights scholar.
Introduction
A Defensible Universalism
Culture and Transcending Relativism
A Right to Cultural Identity
The Rights of Women – Patriarchy, Harm and Empowerment
The Rights of National and Ethnic Minorities
The Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Religion and Human Rights
Working On a Dream?
ReferencesIndex
| Erscheinungsdatum | 28.02.2017 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Textbooks in Global Justice and Human Rights |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 512 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781474401166 / 9781474401166 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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