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Human Rights and Cultural Diversity : Core Issues and Cases / Andrew Fagan.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Textbooks in Global Justice and Human Rights : TGJHRPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781474401166
  • 9781474401173
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 323 23
LOC classification:
  • K3240 .F34 2017
  • JC571 .F235 2017eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 A Defensible Universalism -- 2 Culture and Transcending Relativism -- 3 A Right to Cultural Identity -- 4 The Rights of Women - Patriarchy, Harm and Empowerment -- 5 The Rights of National and Ethnic Minorities -- 6 The Rights of Indigenous Peoples -- 7 Religion and Human Rights -- 8 Working On a Dream? -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: A student guide to reconciling human rights with cultural difference, using political philosophy and real-life case studiesHow can universal human rights be reconciled with respect for wide cultural differences? This textbook introduces the core issues for students and addresses them through an interdisciplinary analysis of key case studies. Throughout the book, an alternative philosophical framework is offered as a model through which universalism and difference can be reconciled into a single global vision.Key FeaturesCombines the theory and application of human rights to provide practical help for students and course leadersKey case studies examine the rights of women, ethnic and national minorities, indigenous peoples and religious communitiesAddresses a broad range of on-going political struggles and issues, including FGM, LGBT rights, freedom of speech and the rights of indigenous peoplesOutlines a new human rights-based philosophical perspective that enables students to understand human rights within culturally diverse environmentsHelpful student features include:Core questions: each chapter starts with 10 core questions, which students are invited to answer as they read to put what they learn into practiceFurther reading: every chapter ends with suggestions for further reading, to help students deepen their study in particular areasTwo-colour layout: blue text boxes and headings draw your attention to important information and make the book easier to read
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 A Defensible Universalism -- 2 Culture and Transcending Relativism -- 3 A Right to Cultural Identity -- 4 The Rights of Women - Patriarchy, Harm and Empowerment -- 5 The Rights of National and Ethnic Minorities -- 6 The Rights of Indigenous Peoples -- 7 Religion and Human Rights -- 8 Working On a Dream? -- Bibliography -- Index

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A student guide to reconciling human rights with cultural difference, using political philosophy and real-life case studiesHow can universal human rights be reconciled with respect for wide cultural differences? This textbook introduces the core issues for students and addresses them through an interdisciplinary analysis of key case studies. Throughout the book, an alternative philosophical framework is offered as a model through which universalism and difference can be reconciled into a single global vision.Key FeaturesCombines the theory and application of human rights to provide practical help for students and course leadersKey case studies examine the rights of women, ethnic and national minorities, indigenous peoples and religious communitiesAddresses a broad range of on-going political struggles and issues, including FGM, LGBT rights, freedom of speech and the rights of indigenous peoplesOutlines a new human rights-based philosophical perspective that enables students to understand human rights within culturally diverse environmentsHelpful student features include:Core questions: each chapter starts with 10 core questions, which students are invited to answer as they read to put what they learn into practiceFurther reading: every chapter ends with suggestions for further reading, to help students deepen their study in particular areasTwo-colour layout: blue text boxes and headings draw your attention to important information and make the book easier to read

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)