LEADER 03379nam 22006372 450 001 9910461541303321 005 20151005020622.0 010 $a1-107-23032-2 010 $a1-139-21009-2 010 $a1-280-48540-X 010 $a9786613580382 010 $a1-139-22307-0 010 $a1-139-21827-1 010 $a1-139-21518-3 010 $a1-139-22479-4 010 $a1-139-22136-1 010 $a1-139-05962-9 035 $a(CKB)2670000000140243 035 $a(EBL)833496 035 $a(OCoLC)775870010 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000612067 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11385311 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000612067 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10671000 035 $a(PQKB)11219929 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781139059626 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC833496 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL833496 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10533324 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL358038 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000140243 100 $a20110401d2012|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aHuman rights as social construction /$fBenjamin Gregg$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (x, 260 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a1-107-61294-2 311 $a1-107-01593-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction. Human rights as local constructions of limited but expandable validity -- Human rights : political not theological -- Human rights : political not metaphysical -- Generating universal human rights out of local norms -- Cultural resources : individuals as authors of human rights -- Neurobiological resources : emotions and natural altruism in support of human rights -- Translating human rights into local cultural vernaculars -- Advancing human rights through cognitive reframing -- Human rights via human nature as cultural choice -- The human rights state -- Coda. What is lost, and what gained, by human rights as social construction. 330 $aMost conceptions of human rights rely on metaphysical or theological assumptions that construe them as possible only as something imposed from outside existing communities. Most people, in other words, presume that human rights come from nature, God, or the United Nations. This book argues that reliance on such putative sources actually undermines human rights. Benjamin Gregg envisions an alternative; he sees human rights as locally developed, freely embraced, and indigenously valid. Human rights, he posits, can be created by the average, ordinary people to whom they are addressed, and that they are valid only if embraced by those to whom they would apply. To view human rights in this manner is to increase the chances and opportunities that more people across the globe will come to embrace them. 606 $aHuman rights$xSocial aspects 615 0$aHuman rights$xSocial aspects. 676 $a323.01 700 $aGregg$b Benjamin Greenwood$f1954-$0913243 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461541303321 996 $aHuman rights as social construction$92449397 997 $aUNINA