LEADER 03900nam 2200745Ia 450 001 9910462915003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8122-0415-8 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812204155 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418194 035 $a(OCoLC)859160657 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748449 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001053993 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11629911 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001053993 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11115888 035 $a(PQKB)10737484 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001053996 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11593320 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001053996 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11115889 035 $a(PQKB)11609158 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442072 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse29672 035 $a(DE-B1597)449773 035 $a(OCoLC)979591874 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812204155 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442072 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748449 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682531 035 $a(OCoLC)932312906 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418194 100 $a20080624d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHuman rights$b[electronic resource] $ea political and cultural critique /$fMakau Mutua 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (265 p.) 225 0 $aPennsylvania Studies in Human Rights 225 0$aPennsylvania studies in human rights 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-51249-3 311 $a0-8122-2049-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tIntroduction -- $tChapter 1. Human Rights as a Metaphor -- $tChapter 2. Human Rights as an Ideology -- $tChapter 3. Human Rights and the African Fingerprint -- $tChapter 4. Human Rights, Religion, and Proselytism -- $tChapter 5. The African State, Human Rights, and Religion -- $tChapter 6. The Limits of Rights Discourse -- $tConclusion -- $tNotes -- $tIndex -- $tAcknowledgments 330 $aIn 1948 the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and with it a profusion of norms, processes, and institutions to define, promote, and protect human rights. Today virtually every cause seeks to cloak itself in the righteous language of rights. But even so, this universal reliance on the rights idiom has not succeeded in creating common ground and deep agreement as to the scope, content, and philosophical bases for human rights.Makau Mutua argues that the human rights enterprise inappropriately presents itself as a guarantor of eternal truths without which human civilization is impossible. Mutua contends that in fact the human rights corpus, though well meaning, is a Eurocentric construct for the reconstitution of non-Western societies and peoples with a set of culturally biased norms and practices.Mutua maintains 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. 606 $aHuman rights 606 $aDemocratization 606 $aCivil society 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aHuman rights. 615 0$aDemocratization. 615 0$aCivil society. 676 $a323.06/0676 700 $aMutua$b Makau$0623644 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462915003321 996 $aHuman rights$91091479 997 $aUNINA