Human Rights
Are human rights part of the problem or part of the solution in the current 'clash of civilizations'? Drawing on a hitherto neglected body of work in classical social theory and combining it with ideas derived from Barrington Moore, Norbert Elias and Michel Foucault, Woodiwiss poses and answers the questions:How did human rights become entangled with power relations?How might the nature of this entanglement be altered so that human rights better serve the global majority?In answering these questions, he explains how and why rights discourse developed in such distinctive ways in four key locations: Britain, the United States, Japan and in the…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-134-23663-3
- EAN: 9781134236633
- Produktnummer: 14484445
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 192 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'890 KB
Über den Autor
Anthony Woodiwiss is Professor and head of department for Sociology, at City University, London.
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