Global justice and the bulwarks of localism : human rights in context / edited by Christopher L. Eisgruber and András Sajó.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Eisgruber, Christopher L.
Sajó, András
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : M. Nijhoff, [2005], ©2005.
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Physical Description:xv, 346 pages ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Power and culture in the acceptance of universal human rights / Lawrence Rosen
  • Ambiguities and boundaries in human rights knowledge systems / András Sajó
  • Human rights and a humanist social science / Martin Krygier
  • Social representations of human and collective rights : a case study in Quebec / Willem Doise and Monica Herrera
  • Paradoxes of self-determination and the right to self-government / Rainer Bauböck
  • Ascriptive groups and the problems of the liberal NGO model of international civil society / Benedict Kingsbury
  • What self-governing peoples owe to one another : universalism, diversity, and the "Law of Peoples" / Stephen Macedo
  • Rawls, rights, and realistic utopias / Martin S. Flaherty
  • When cultures collide : which rights? whose tradition of values? a critique of the global anti-FGM campaign / Richard A. Scweder
  • Religion, universal human rights, and the ambivalence of the sacred / W. Cole Durham, Jr.
  • The internationalization of religious positions on human rights : how religious particularisms are uniting in a campaign against women's international human rights / Ann Elizabeth Mayer
  • Creating a human rights culture : the role of local knowledge in Cambodia's difficult transition / Stephen P. Marks
  • Justice for migrant workers? : the case of foreign domestic workers in Hong Kong and Singapore / Daniel A. Bell
  • Made to order? : transitional justice initiatives in the developing world, or the truths we should be telling / Nicole Fritz.