Human Rights and the Third World
Issues and Discourses
Published on 6. December 2012
Book
Hardback
428 pages
978-0-7391-7735-8 (ISBN)
Description
Human Rights and the Third World: Issues and Discourses deals with the controversial questions on the universalistic notions of human rights. It finds Third World perspectives on human rights and seeks to open up a discursive space in the human rights discourse to address unresolved questions, citing issues and problems from different countries in the Third World: 1. Whether alternative perspectives should be taken as the standard for human rights in the Third World countries?
2. Should there be a universalistic notion of rights for Homo sapiens or are we talking about two diametrically opposite trends and standards of human rights for the same species?
3. How far these Third World perspectives of human rights can ensure the protection of the minorities and the vulnerable sections of population, particularly the women and children within the Third World?
4. Can these alternative perspectives help in fighting the Third World problems like poverty, hunger, corruption, despotism, social exclusion like the caste system in India, communalism, and the like?
5. Can there be reconciliation between the Third World perspectives and the Western perspective of human rights?
2. Should there be a universalistic notion of rights for Homo sapiens or are we talking about two diametrically opposite trends and standards of human rights for the same species?
3. How far these Third World perspectives of human rights can ensure the protection of the minorities and the vulnerable sections of population, particularly the women and children within the Third World?
4. Can these alternative perspectives help in fighting the Third World problems like poverty, hunger, corruption, despotism, social exclusion like the caste system in India, communalism, and the like?
5. Can there be reconciliation between the Third World perspectives and the Western perspective of human rights?
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
845 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7391-7735-8 (9780739177358)
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Issues and Discourses
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Persons
Subrata Sankar Bagchi is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at Bangabasi Evening College, University of Calcutta, India. He is also teaching postgraduate courses of anthropology and human rights in the University of Calcutta, West Bengal State University, and Jadavpur University.
Arnab Das is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Calcutta. He also teaches postgraduate courses in human rights, museology, human resource management, anthropology, and rural development in West Bengal, India.
Arnab Das is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Calcutta. He also teaches postgraduate courses in human rights, museology, human resource management, anthropology, and rural development in West Bengal, India.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Human Rights and the Third World: Issues and Discourse, Subrata SankarBagchi and Arnab Das
Part 1. Global Human Rights Standards and the Third World
Chapter 1. Universal Claim and Postcolonial Realities: The Deep Unease over Western-centered Human Rights Standards in the Global South, Marie-Luisa Frick
Chapter 2. Progressive Realization of the Right to Development in India, Clarence J. Dias
Chapter 3. Development and Environmental Issues vis-a-vis Current Perspectives of Human Rights, Aniruddha Mukhopadhyay and Sayan Bhattacharya
Chapter 4. Human Rights and Corruption: The Case of Political Corruption and Opposition to Human Rights in Indonesia, Agus Wahyudi
Part 2. Politics of Human Rights from Third World Perspectives
Chapter 5. Human Rights and Indigenous Self-Government: The Taiwanese Experience, Scott Simon and Awi Mona (Chih-Wei Tsai)
Chapter 6. Colonial Continuities, Neoliberal-Hegemony and Adivasi (Original Dweller) Space: Human Rights as Paradox and Equivocation in Contexts of Dispossession in India, Dip Kapoor
Chapter 7. Hindutva Politics-Impact on Human Rights, Ram Puniyani
Part 3. Rights of the Marginalized
Chpater 8. Human Rights Violations in India: Exploring the Societal Roots of Marginality, Debi Chatterjee
Chapter 9. Media, Cultural Rights and the Third World, Pranta Pratik Patnaik
Chapter 10. The Fault Lines in Soviet-Style Accommodation of Minority Rights in Ethiopia, Semahagn Gashu
Chapter 11. Human Rights and the Third World Other, Subrata Sankar Bagchi
Part 4. Rights for Children and Genders
Chapter 12. Culture and Issues of Rights to the Eyes of the Indians with 'Other' Self-Identities of Sexuality and Gender, Arnab Das and Pawan Dhall
Chapter 13. Roots and Shoots of Female Feticide in Pockets of India-Lending Voice to the Voiceless, Tushar Kanti Saha
Part 5. Rights of the Disabled and Health
Chapter 14. The Rights of People Living with Disability in the Third World Context: The Zimbabwean Pentecostal Concept of 'Curses and Blessings' in the Light of Disability, Francis Machingura
Chapter 15. The Indian Disability Rights Paradigm: The Reality versus Rhetoric, Anuradha Saibaba Rajesh
Chapter 16. 'People's Health in People's Hand': Story of a Voluntary Organization in Rural West Bengal, Satyabrata Chakrborty
Part 6. Expanding Frontiers of Human Rights
Chapter 17. Human Rights and Information Society: Problematizing India, Dipankar Sinha
Chapter 18. Biotechnology and Human Rights, Subhasis Mukhopadhyay
Index
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Human Rights and the Third World: Issues and Discourse, Subrata SankarBagchi and Arnab Das
Part 1. Global Human Rights Standards and the Third World
Chapter 1. Universal Claim and Postcolonial Realities: The Deep Unease over Western-centered Human Rights Standards in the Global South, Marie-Luisa Frick
Chapter 2. Progressive Realization of the Right to Development in India, Clarence J. Dias
Chapter 3. Development and Environmental Issues vis-a-vis Current Perspectives of Human Rights, Aniruddha Mukhopadhyay and Sayan Bhattacharya
Chapter 4. Human Rights and Corruption: The Case of Political Corruption and Opposition to Human Rights in Indonesia, Agus Wahyudi
Part 2. Politics of Human Rights from Third World Perspectives
Chapter 5. Human Rights and Indigenous Self-Government: The Taiwanese Experience, Scott Simon and Awi Mona (Chih-Wei Tsai)
Chapter 6. Colonial Continuities, Neoliberal-Hegemony and Adivasi (Original Dweller) Space: Human Rights as Paradox and Equivocation in Contexts of Dispossession in India, Dip Kapoor
Chapter 7. Hindutva Politics-Impact on Human Rights, Ram Puniyani
Part 3. Rights of the Marginalized
Chpater 8. Human Rights Violations in India: Exploring the Societal Roots of Marginality, Debi Chatterjee
Chapter 9. Media, Cultural Rights and the Third World, Pranta Pratik Patnaik
Chapter 10. The Fault Lines in Soviet-Style Accommodation of Minority Rights in Ethiopia, Semahagn Gashu
Chapter 11. Human Rights and the Third World Other, Subrata Sankar Bagchi
Part 4. Rights for Children and Genders
Chapter 12. Culture and Issues of Rights to the Eyes of the Indians with 'Other' Self-Identities of Sexuality and Gender, Arnab Das and Pawan Dhall
Chapter 13. Roots and Shoots of Female Feticide in Pockets of India-Lending Voice to the Voiceless, Tushar Kanti Saha
Part 5. Rights of the Disabled and Health
Chapter 14. The Rights of People Living with Disability in the Third World Context: The Zimbabwean Pentecostal Concept of 'Curses and Blessings' in the Light of Disability, Francis Machingura
Chapter 15. The Indian Disability Rights Paradigm: The Reality versus Rhetoric, Anuradha Saibaba Rajesh
Chapter 16. 'People's Health in People's Hand': Story of a Voluntary Organization in Rural West Bengal, Satyabrata Chakrborty
Part 6. Expanding Frontiers of Human Rights
Chapter 17. Human Rights and Information Society: Problematizing India, Dipankar Sinha
Chapter 18. Biotechnology and Human Rights, Subhasis Mukhopadhyay
Index
Notes on Contributors