The Human Rights State: Justice Within and Beyond Sovereign Nations (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights)

Synopsis

Makau Mutua Contends 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. Part 1. The Human Rights State: Politics By Metaphor -- 1. Human Rights As Metaphor -- 2. Human Rights In A Backpack -- 3. The Body As Human Rights Boundary -- Part 2. The Human Rights State Through Persuasion, Not Coercion -- 4. Teaching Human Rights As A Cognitive Style -- 5. Developing Human Rights Commitment In Post-authoritarian Societies -- 6. Digital Technology As Resource For The Human Rights Project -- Part 3. Defense Of The Human Rights State In The Face Of Challenges -- 7. Human Rights Patriotism -- 8. A Human Right Not To Democracy But To The Rule Of Law -- 9. Human Rights And Humanitarian Intervention -- Coda: A Community Of Nation States Practicing Domestic Cosmopolitanism. Benjamin Gregg. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.