{"product_id":"human-rights-in-crosscultural-perspectives-9780812215687","title":"Human Rights in CrossCultural Perspectives","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHuman rights violations are perpetrated in all parts of the world, and the universal reaction to such atrocities is overwhelmingly one of horror and sadness. Yet, as Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na''im and his contributors attest, our viewpoint is clouded and biased by the expectations native to our own culture. How do other cultures view human rights issues? Can an analysis of these issues through multiple viewpoints, both cross-cultural and indigenous, help us reinterpret and reconstruct prevailing theories of human rights?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The contributors have done an outstanding job of illuminating complex problems, offering thoroughly researched, probing analyses and expositions that are both well written and extensively documented. The book contains excellent case studies that examine the coexistence and clashes of different cultures as they impinge on human rights issues, as well as thoughtful critiques of philosophical position. . . . This is a work that can be recommended highly, both to those pursuing the study of cross-cultural validity of rights and to persons with more general interests.\" * \u003ci\u003eHuman Rights Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Eloquent explorations of the charge that human rights advocacy is but thinly disguised cultural imperialism.\" * \u003ci\u003eAmerican Political Science Review\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"A valuable addition to an important blossoming of literature on this topic.\" * \u003ci\u003eAmerican Journal of International Law\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"All the contributions are interesting and, from their own different perspectives, throw light on the different aspects of the vexed question of human rights.\" * \u003ci\u003ePolitical Studies\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e —Abdullahi A. An-Na'im\u003cbr\u003e SECTION I.GENERAL ISSUES OF A CROSS-CULTURAL APPROACH TO HUMAN RIGHTS\u003cbr\u003e 1. Toward a Cross-Cultural Approach to Defining International Standards of Human Rights: The Meaning of Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment\u003cbr\u003e —Abdullahi A. An-Na'im\u003cbr\u003e 2. Cultural Foundations for the International Protection of Human Rights\u003cbr\u003e —Richard Falk\u003cbr\u003e 3. Making a Goddess of Democracy from Loose Sand: Thoughts on Human Rights in the People's Republic of China\u003cbr\u003e —William P. Alford\u003cbr\u003e 4. Dignity, Community, and Human Rights\u003cbr\u003e —Rhoda E. Howard\u003cbr\u003e SECTION II.PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF ALTERNATIVE CULTURAL INTERPRETATION\u003cbr\u003e 5. Postliberal Strands in Western Human Rights Theory: Personalist-Communitarian Perspectives\u003cbr\u003e —Virginia A. Leary\u003cbr\u003e 6. Should Communities Have Rights? Reflections on Liberal Individualism\u003cbr\u003e —Michael McDonald\u003cbr\u003e 7. A Marxian Approach to Human Rights\u003cbr\u003e —Richard Nordahl\u003cbr\u003e SECTION III.REGIONAL AND INDIGENOUS CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON HUMAN RIGHTS\u003cbr\u003e 8. North American Indian Perspectives on Human Rights\u003cbr\u003e —James W. Zion\u003cbr\u003e 9. Aboriginal Communities, Aboriginal Rights, and the Human Rights System in Canada\u003cbr\u003e —Allan McChesney\u003cbr\u003e 10. Political Culture and Gross Human Rights Violations in Latin America\u003cbr\u003e —Hugo Fruhling\u003cbr\u003e 11. Custom Is Not a Thing, It Is a Path: Reflections on the Brazilian Indian Case\u003cbr\u003e —Manuela Carneiro da Cunha\u003cbr\u003e 12. Cultural Legitimacy in the Formulation and Implementation of Human Rights Law and Policy in Australia\u003cbr\u003e —Patricia Hyndman\u003cbr\u003e 13. Considering Gender: Are Human Rights for Women, Too? An Australian Case\u003cbr\u003e —Diane Bell\u003cbr\u003e 14. Right to Self-Determination: A Basic Human Right Concerning Cultural Survival. The Case of the Sami and the Scandinavian State\u003cbr\u003e —Tom G. Svensson\u003cbr\u003e SECTION IV.PROSPECTS FOR A CROSS-CULTURAL APPROACH TO HUMAN RIGHTS\u003cbr\u003e 15. Prospects for Research on the Cultural Legitimacy of Human Rights: The Cases of Liberalism and Marxism\u003cbr\u003e —Tore Lindholm\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e —Abdullahi A. An-Na'im\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405690282327,"sku":"9780812215687","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812215687.jpg?v=1730493290","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/human-rights-in-crosscultural-perspectives-9780812215687","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}