This book examines the ideas about rights and their evolution in modern political thought. The essays in the volume: --present a comprehensive overview on major thinkers and the evolving discourse on rights --interrogate the idea of 'rights' in the post-colonial context and for the 21st century --introduce a Global South perspective in the rights discourse.
The volume will be of great interest to scholars, students and researchers of politics, especially political theory, and international law.
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Höhe: 234 mm
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978-1-032-77357-5 (9781032773575)
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Vishnu Varatharajan is a PhD Candidate at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland. His research focuses on identifying the fundamental belief systems that open up the faultlines of political polarization in parliamentary democracies. He also works as a Research Officer at Global Survivors Fund, involved in mapping the status of and opportunities for reparations for survivors of conflict-related sexual violence.
Meera Chakravorty, PhD. is a Doctoral Advisor in the Department of Cultural Studies, Jain University, Bangalore. She has been a member of the State Women's Commission, Bangalore, Karnataka. Her engagement has been with Philosophy, Women's Studies, Cultural Studies, Consciousness Studies and Translation projects. She has translated some award-winning literary works of renowned authors published by Sahitya Akademi (The Academy of Letters, India). She was awarded for her writing on 'Time' by University of Interdisciplinary studies, Paris, and John Templeton Foundation jointly. She has also been awarded for her literary work by the Tagore Cultural Centre, Bangalore.
Mbuh Tennu Mbuh is Head of the English Department, The University of Bamenda-Cameroon. He is also the President of the Anglophone Cameroon Writers' Association, ACWA. He is presently working on his fourth poetry collection, The Sins of a Patriot, and at the same time tidying up his third novel, The Inheritors of Alahmbit. He has also published short stories and plays.
Introduction
Vishnu Varatharajan, Meera Chakravorty, Mbuh Tennu Mbuh
Part I - The Health of Cultural Anxieties
1. The Right to Mental Health? International Law and the Privatization of Anxiety
Adam Strobeyko
2. African (Igbo) Ethics of Rights' Discourse: Theory and Practice
Stanley Uche Anozie
3. Reinventing our Humanity and Reclaiming our Freedom to Co-create a New World
Iman Ibrahim
Part II - Gendering rights: Many Rights, Single Goal
4. The New 'Other': The Postcolonial African Lesbian Experience in Chinelo Okparanta's Under the Udala Trees
Blossom N. Fondo
5. Conflict-related Sexual Violence: Perspectives from the Global Reparations Study
Vishnu Varatharajan
6. Rethinking Pluralism and Rights
Ananta Kumar Giri
Part III - Culture, Philosophy and Rights
7. On Ideas About Rights in Thinking and Writing Rights: Exploring Earth's Rights
Meera Chakravorty
8. A critical Buddhist perspective on truth and rights in an unequal world: the Parable of the Skilled Physician revisited
Penny Ehrhardt
9. Rights Left Out
Karl-Julius Reubke
10. Rights, liberalism, multiculturalism
Gianluigi Segalerba
11. From Kantian Enlightenment to Rortyan Rights: A Pragmatist Perspective
Rahul Kumar Maurya