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Titolo: |
Human rights and the Third World : issues and discourses / / edited by Subrata Sankar Bagchi and Arnab Das
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Pubblicazione: | Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2013] |
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Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (420 p.) |
Disciplina: | 323.09172/4 |
Soggetto topico: | Human rights - Developing countries |
Human rights | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: |
BagchiSubrata Sankar <1965->
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Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Universal claim and postcolonial realities : the deep unease over western-centered human rights standards in the global South / Marie-Luisa Frick -- Progressive realization of the right to development in India / Clarence J. Dias -- Development and environmental issues vis-à-vis current perspectives of human rights / Aniruddha Mukhopadhyay and Sayan Bhattacharya -- Human rights and corruption : the case of political corruption and opposition to human rights in Indonesia / Agus Wahyudi -- Human rights and indigenous self-government : the Taiwanese experience / Scott Simon and Awi Mona (Chih-Wei Tsai) -- Colonial continuities, neoliberal-hegemony and adivasi (original dweller) space : human rights as paradox and equivocation in contexts of dispossession in India / Dip Kapoor -- Hindutva politics : impact on human rights / Ram Puniyani -- Human rights violations in India : exploring the societal roots of marginality / Debi Chatterjee -- Media, cultural rights and the Third World / Pranta Pratik Patnaik -- The fault lines in Soviet-style accommodation of minority rights in Ethiopia / Semahagn Gashu -- Human rights and the Third World other / Subrata Sankar Bagchi -- Culture and issues of rights to the eyes of the Indians with "other" self-identities of sexuality and gender / Arnab Das and Pawan Dhall -- Roots and shoots of female feticide in pockets of India : lending voice to the voiceless / Tushar Kanti Saha -- The rights of people living with disability in the Third World context : the Zimbabwean pentecostal concept of "curses and blessings" in the light of disability / Francis Machingura -- The Indian disability rights paradigm : the reality versus rhetoric / Anuradha Saibaba Rajesh -- "People's health in people's hand" : story of a voluntary organization in rural West Bengal / Satyabrata Chakrborty -- Human rights and information society : problematizing India / Dipankar Sinha -- Biotechnology and human rights / Subhasis Mukhopadhyay. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Human Rights and the Third World: Issues and Discourses deals with the controversial questions on the universalistic notions of human rights. It finds Third World perspectives on human rights and seeks to open up a discursive space in the human rights discourse to address unresolved questions in human rights, citing issues and problems from different countries in the Third World. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Human rights and the Third World ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-7391-7736-2 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910464346103321 |
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