Global justice and the bulwarks of localism : : human rights in context / / edited by Christopher L. Eisgruber and Andras Sajo.

• TeilnehmendeR: Eisgruber, Christopher L.,; Sajó, András,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, [2005]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

The rise of international human rights during the last half of the twentieth century has transformed traditional notions of sovereignty. No longer is international law concerned almost exclusively with external relations among states and their representatives. Now, it imposes substantial restrictions on the domestic affairs of states and protects ordinary persons against mistreatment by their own government. The change came about in response to the Holocaust and the century's other great tragedies. Few doubt its value. Nevertheless, power exercised in the name of human rights can be misused or abused. As human rights institutions matured, and as international organizations intervened more vigorously on a global scale, human rights advocates and their critics worried about whether quests to vindicate supposedly universal human rights might sometimes impose western, first-world norms on cultures that did not want them. In this volume, internationally noted scholars collaborate to address issues about human rights and local culture from philosophical, legal, anthropological and sociological perspectives. Their essays focus on topics including self-determination, religion, truth & reconciliation commissions, and sexual mores.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I The Power of the Universal -- Chapter 1 Power and Culture in the Acceptance of Universal Human Rights -- Chapter 2 Ambiguities and Boundaries in Human Rights Knowledge Systems -- Chapter 3 Human Rights and a Humanist Social Science -- Chapter 4 Social Representations of Human and Collective Rights: A Case Study in Quebec -- Part II The Power of Self-Government -- Chapter 5 Paradoxes of Self-Determination and the Right to Self-Government -- Chapter 6 Ascriptive Groups and the Problems of the Liberal NGO Model of International Civil Society -- Chapter 7 What Self-Governing Peoples Owe to One Another: Universalism, Diversity, and the "Law of Peoples -- Chapter 8 Rawls, Rights, and Realistic Utopias -- Part III When Cultures Collide -- Chapter 9 When Cultures Collide: Which Rights? Whose Tradition of Values? A Critique of the Global Anti-FGM Campaign -- Chapter 10 Religion, Universal Human Rights, and the Ambivalence of the Sacred -- Chapter 11 The Internationalization of Religious Positions on Human Rights: How Religious Particularisms are Uniting in a Campaign against Women's International Human Rights -- Chapter 12 Creating a Human Rights Culture: The Role of Local Knowledge in Cambodia's Difficult Transition -- Chapter 13 Justice for Migrant Workers? The Case of Foreign Domestic Workers in Hong Kong and Singapore -- Chapter 14 Made to Order? Transitional Justice Initiatives in the Developing World, or the Truths We Should be Telling -- Index.