Development and Rights
Negotiating Justice in Changing Societies
1st Edition
Published on 23. October 2013
144 pages
978-1-135-26089-7 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of essays hand explores a major undercurrent of the debate on rights, namely the question of universalism and cultural relativism. It also explores how rights are claimed and contested, vindicated and politicized and, in different ways, transform social practice.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Reflowable
File size
0,85 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-135-26089-7 (9781135260897)
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Person
Christian Lund
Content
Chapter 1 Development and Rights: Tempering Universalism and Relativism, Christian Lund; Chapter 2 On Universal Morality and the Morality of Universalism, Zygmunt Bauman; Chapter 3 Universal Rights and the Historical Context, Per Bauhn; Chapter 4 Changing African Land Tenure: Reflections on the Incapacities of the State, Sally Falk Moore; Chapter 5 Politics and Struggles for Access to Land: 'Grants from Above' and 'Squatters' in Coastal Kenya, Karuti Kanyinga; Chapter 6 Past Wrongs and Gender Rights: Issues and Conflicts in South Africa's Land Reform, Susie Jacobs; Chapter 7 Women's Human Rights and African Customary Laws: Between Universalism and Relativism - Individualism and Communitarianism, Anne Hellum; Chapter 8 The Interplay between Collective Rights and Obligations and Individual Rights, Rie Odgaard, Agnete Weis Bentzon; Chapter 9 Governance as Multilateral Development Bank Policy: The Cases of the African Development Bank and the Asian Development Bank, Morten Boas;
