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UNINA9910788275803321 |
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Titolo |
Constructing human rights in the age of globalization / / Mahmood Monshipouri. [et al.], editors |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2015 |
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ISBN |
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1-317-47389-2 |
1-315-70545-1 |
0-7656-1137-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (388 p.) |
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Collana |
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International Relations in a Constructed World |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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MonshipouriMahmood <1952-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Civil rights |
Human rights |
Human rights and globalization |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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First published 2003 by M.E. Sharpe. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Cover""; ""Half Title""; ""Series Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Observing Human Rights in an Age of Globalization""; ""Part I. The Struggle to Control the Human Rights Regime""; ""1. Who Owns Our Culture? Intellectual Property, Human Rights, and Globalization""; ""2. The Consequences of a Constructed Universal: Democracy and Civil Rights in the Modern State""; ""3. Reflections on the Intersections of Environment, Development, and Human Rights in the Context of Globalization"" |
""4. Translating a Liberal Feminism: Revisiting Susan Okin on Freedom, Culture, and Women's Rights""""Part II. The Dynamics and Counterdynamics of Globalization""; ""5. The Politics of Culture and Human Rights in Iran: Globalizing and Localizing Dynamics""; ""6. Outside Actors and the Pursuit of Civil Society in China: Harnessing the Forces of Globalization""; ""7. Globalization and Human Rights for Workers in China: Convergence or Collision?""; ""8. Localizing Human Rights in an Era of Globalization: The Case of Hong Kong"" |
""Part III. Setting the Terms of Debate: Pursuing Global Consensus""""9. The Challenges to International Human Rights""; ""10. Obstacles on the |
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Road to an Overlapping Consensus on Human Rights""; ""11. Globalizing Cultural Values: International Human Rights Discourse as Moral Persuasion""; ""12. Suffering as Common Ground""; ""Conclusion: Reconstructing Human Rights in the Global Society""; ""About the Contributors""; ""Index"" |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Both human rights and globalization are powerful ideas and processes, capable of transforming the world in profound ways. Notwithstanding their universal claims, however, the processes are constructed, and they draw their power from the specific cultural and political contexts in which they are constructed. Far from bringing about a harmonious cosmopolitan order, they have stimulated conflict and opposition. In the context of globalization, as the idea of human rights has become universal, its meaning has become one more terrain of struggle among groups with their own interests and goals. Part |
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