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The rights revolution

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Anansi, 2000 - Political Science - 170 pages
Since the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, rights have become the dominant language of the public good around the globe. In Canada, rights have become the trump card in every argument from family life to Parliament Hill, but the notorious fights for aboriginal rights and for the linguistic heritage of French-speaking Canadians have steered Canada into a full-blown rights revolution. This revolution is not only deeply controversial, but is being watched around the world. Are group rights to land and language jeopardizing individual rights? Has the Charter of Rights empowered ordinary Canadians or just enriched constitutional lawyers? When everyone asserts their rights, what happens to responsibilities? Michael Ignatieff confronts these questions head-on in The Rights Revolution, defending the supposed individualism of rights language against all comers.

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Somehow all of my most scholarly reads are about Canada. I got this at the talking leaves in the snack. I imagined Kirill behind the desk, and Amy buying the dictionary. The book was so good. About ... Read full review

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CBC Radio | Ideas | Massey Lectures
I'm calling this change the rights revolution, to describe the amazing way in which rights talk has ... The rights revolution is a story of struggle. ...
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JSTOR: The Rights Revolution
516 Reviews/Comptes rendus The Rights Revolution by Michael Ignatieff. Toronto: Anansi Press, 2000. Pp. xi, 170. $16.95. Michael Ignatieff says that his ...
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Overheads on Rights Revolution
“The rights revolution makes society harder to control, more unruly, more contentious. This is because rights equality makes society more inclusive, ...
www.sfu.ca/ ~etiffany/ teaching/ phil120/ overheads_2_14_06.html

Uni.ca -- Opinion -- by Cristie L. Ford
Michael Ignatieff says that his latest book, THE RIGHTS REVOLUTION, ... Greater inclusion is, of course, more just; yet the rights revolution has also been ...
www.uni.ca/ cristie_e2001.html

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(p. 54). For more about Michael Ignatieff on our website, click here. To read more about The Rights Revolution, click here. Have Your Say ...
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Catholic Insight : Political : Michael Ignatieff is ignorant of ...
In the 2000 Massey Lectures broadcast by the CBC and later published as The Rights Revolution, Ignatieff outlined the evolving understanding of human rights ...
catholicinsight.com/ online/ political/ article_677.shtml

LAW AND SOCIETY SEMINAR: PARADOXES OF RIGHTS (AS/SOSC 4354 6
Michael Ignatieff, The Rights Revolution (Toronto: Anansi Press, 2000). • Sally Engle Merry, Human Rights and Gender Violence: Translating International Law ...
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First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life: The ...
The Rights Revolution. (Briefly Noted).~(book review). THE RIGHTS REVOLUTION. By MICHAEL IGNATIEFF. Anansi. 170pp. $12 paper. ...
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Michael Ignatieff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Entitled The Rights Revolution, the series was released in print later that year. He has been a participant and panel leader at the World Economic Forum in ...
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H-Net Review: Christopher Tait on The Other Quiet Revolution ...
Michael Ignatieff, The Rights Revolution (Toronto: Anansi, 2000), esp. chapter 5; Richard Gwyn, Nationalism without Walls: The Unbearable Lightness of Being ...
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About the author (2000)

Michael Ignatieff, born in Toronto in 1947. But at the age of 11, Ignatieff was sent to Toronto to attend Upper Canada College as a boarder in 1959. At UCC, Ignatieff was elected a school prefect as Head of Wedd's House, was the captain of the varsity soccer team, and served as editor-in-chief of the school's yearbook. As well, Ignatieff volunteered for the Liberal Party during the 1965 federal election by canvassing the York South riding. He resumed his work for the Liberal Party in 1968, as a national youth organizer and party delegate for the Pierre Elliott Trudeau party leadership campaign. He then went on to continue his education at the University of Toronto and Harvard and Cambridge universities. In 1976, Ignatieff completed his Ph.D in History at Harvard University. He was granted a Cambridge M.A. by incorporation in 1978 on taking up a fellowship at King's College there. Michael Ignatieff has written television programs for the BBC, novels, and works of nonfiction. He has also authored essays and reviews for several publications including The New York Times. From 1990-93, he wrote a weekly column on international affairs for The Observer. His family memoir, The Russian Album, received Canada's Governor General Award in 1988. His second novel, Scar Tissue, was short-listed for the Booker Prize in 1993. Other nonfiction works include A Just Measure of Pain, the Penitentiary in the Industrial Revolution and the Warrior's Honor: Ethic War and the Modern Conscience.

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TitleThe rights revolution
CBC Massey lecture series
AuthorMichael Ignatieff
PublisherAnansi, 2000
ISBN0887846564, 9780887846564
Length170 pages
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Political Science / Human Rights
  
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