Negotiating Culture and Human RightsNegotiating Culture and Human Rights provides a new interdisciplinary approach to issues of cultural values and universal human rights. Central to the discussion is the "Asian values debate," so named because of the culturally relativist ideals embraced by some key Asian governments. By analyzing how cultural difference and human rights operate in theory and practice in such areas as legal equality, women's rights, and ethnicity, the contributors forge a new way of looking at these critical issues. They call their approach "chastened universalism," arguing that respect for others' values need not lead to sterile, relativist views. Ultimately the authors conclude that it is less important to discover pre-existing common values across cultures than to create them through dialogue and debate |
Contents
Who Produces Asian Identity? Discourse Discrimination and Chinese Peasant Women in the Quest for Human Rights | 21 |
Culturally Informed Arguments for Universal Human Rights | 43 |
Getting Beyond CrossTalk Why Persisting Disagreements Are Philosophically Nonfatal | 45 |
Western Defensiveness and the Defense of Rights A Communitarian Alternative | 68 |
Rights Hunting in NonWestern Traditions | 96 |
Human Rights Law and Its Limits | 123 |
How a Liberal Jurist Defends the Bangkok Declaration | 125 |
Are Women Human? The Promise and Perils of Womens Rights as Human Rights | 153 |
Universalization of the Rejection of Human Rights Russias Case | 258 |
Ethnicity and Human Rights in Contemporary Democracies Israel and Other Cases | 303 |
Walking Two Roads Reading Human Rights in Contemporary Chinese Fiction | 334 |
Beyond Universalism and Relativism | 347 |
Universalism A Particularistic Account | 349 |
Dedichotomizing Discourse Three Gorges Two Cultures One Nature | 369 |
Universal Declaration of Human Rights | 383 |
Bangkok Declaration on Human Rights | 390 |
RePositioning Human Rights Discourse on Asian Perspectives | 197 |
Rights Discourse and Power Relations | 215 |
Human Rights and the Discourse on Universality A Chinese Historical Perspective | 217 |
Jihad Over Human Rights Human Rights as Jihad Clash of Universals | 242 |
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Negotiating Culture and Human Rights Lynda Schaefer Bell,Andrew James Nathan,Ilan Peleg No preview available - 2001 |
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