Human Rights and the Third World: Issues and Discourses - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0739197983 ISBN 13 : 9780739197981

Editeur : Lexington Books, 2014

Synopsis

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?

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Subrata Sankar Bagchi is a reader for the Department of Anthropology in Bangabasi Evening College. His research interests include child labor, urban marginalization, research methodology, and human rights in the Third World. Bagchi is the author of Expanding Horizons of Human Rights and Living on the Margin. He was recently a visiting professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Ottawa.

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.

Francis Machingura is professor and currently the Director for the Centre for Postgraduate Studies, University of Zimbabwe.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lexington Books
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0739197983
• ISBN 13: 9780739197981
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 428
• Éditeur: Bagchi Subrata Sankar
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Buchpark GmbH; gpsr@buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne