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082 0 4 _a323.06/0676
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aMutua, Makau
_eautore
245 1 0 _aHuman Rights :
_bA Political and Cultural Critique /
_cMakau Mutua.
264 1 _aPhiladelphia :
_bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,
_c[2013]
264 4 _c©2002
300 _a1 online resource (264 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 0 _aPennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tPreface --
_tIntroduction --
_tChapter 1. Human Rights as a Metaphor --
_tChapter 2. Human Rights as an Ideology --
_tChapter 3. Human Rights and the African Fingerprint --
_tChapter 4. Human Rights, Religion, and Proselytism --
_tChapter 5. The African State, Human Rights, and Religion --
_tChapter 6. The Limits of Rights Discourse --
_tConclusion --
_tNotes --
_tIndex --
_tAcknowledgments
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aIn 1948 the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and with it a profusion of norms, processes, and institutions to define, promote, and protect human rights. Today virtually every cause seeks to cloak itself in the righteous language of rights. But even so, this universal reliance on the rights idiom has not succeeded in creating common ground and deep agreement as to the scope, content, and philosophical bases for human rights.Makau Mutua argues that the human rights enterprise inappropriately presents itself as a guarantor of eternal truths without which human civilization is impossible. Mutua contends that in fact the human rights corpus, though well meaning, is a Eurocentric construct for the reconstitution of non-Western societies and peoples with a set of culturally biased norms and practices.Mutua maintains that if the human rights movement is to succeed, it must move away from Eurocentrism as a civilizing crusade and attack on non-European peoples. Only a genuine multicultural approach to human rights can make it truly universal. Indigenous, non-European traditions of Asia, Africa, the Pacific, and the Americas must be deployed to deconstruct-and to reconstruct-a universal bundle of rights that all human societies can claim as theirs.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022)
650 4 _aHuman Rights.
650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights.
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653 _aHuman Rights.
653 _aLaw.
653 _aPolitical Science.
653 _aPublic Policy.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.9783/9780812204155
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812204155
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