Human rights and the Third World : issues and discourses /
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| Imprint: | Lanham : Lexington Books, c2013. |
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| Description: | viii, 420 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8964477 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Human Rights and the Third World: Issues and Discourse
- Part I. Global Human Rights Standards and the Third World
- 1. Universal Claim and Postcolonial Realities: The Deep Unease over Western-Centered Human Rights Standards in the Global South
- 2. The Impossible Dream: Global Realization of the Human Right to Development-Now!
- 3. Development and Environmental Issues vis-à-vis Current Perspectives of Human Rights
- 4. Human Rights and Corruption: Indonesian Case for Reconciling Universalism and Relativism
- Part II. Politics of Human Rights from Third World Perspectives
- 5. Human Rights and Indigenous Self-Government: The Taiwanese Experience
- 6. Colonial Continuities, Neoliberal Hegemony and Adivasi (Original Dweller) Space: Human Rights as Paradox and Equivocation in Contexts of Dispossession in India
- 7. Hindutva Politics - Impact on Human Rights
- Part III. Rights of the Marginalized
- 8. Human Rights Violations in India: Exploring the Societal Roots of Marginality
- 9. Media, Cultural Rights and the Third World
- 10. The Fault Lines in Soviet-Style Accommodation of Minority Rights in Ethiopia
- 11. Human Rights and the Third World Other
- Part IV. Rights for Children and Genders
- 12. Culture and Issues of Rights to the Eyes of the Indians with 'Other' Self-Identities of Sexuality and Gender
- 13. Roots and Shoots of Female Feticide in Pockets of India-Lending Voice to the Voiceless
- Part V. Rights of the Disabled and Health
- 14. The Rights of People Living with Disability from the Third World Perspective: The Zimbabwean Context
- 15. Disability in the Third World: A Critical Mapping of the Indian Scenario
- 16. "People's Health in People's Hands"-A Goal Ever-Elusive?
- Part VI. Expanding Frontiers of Human Rights
- 17. Human Rights and Information Society: Problematizing India
- 18. Biotechnology and Human Rights
- Index
- Notes on Contributors
