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| Title | : | Human Rights: A Political and Cultural Critique (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.12 (886 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0812220498 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 264 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-05 |
| Language | : | English |
. Makau Mutua is Professor of Law and Director of the Human Rights Center at the State University of New York at Buffalo Law School
"Third World Critique of Human Rights Movement" according to Dornova. Mutua's book is a must-have for those seeking to understand why a hegemonic, westernized approach to human rights is so problematic. Speaking from the perspective of an "insider/outsider" (the author is a leading international human rights scholar and acti. "a very solid book and I definitely recommend it." according to me. This book is very interesting, especially for comparison to western ideology as the author is of African origin. The book offered me a very interesting perspective on the subject of human rights from a totally different mindset than my own. Overall, a very
Only a genuine multicultural approach to human rights can make it truly universal. 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. 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.. Today virtually every cause seeks to cloak itself in the righteous language of rights. 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. In 1948 the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, an
Mutua is right when he argues that the human rights movement is neither nonideological nor postideological. "A welcome and timely contribution to a human rights discourse that is becoming increasingly monolithic. The mantra of universal morality tends to mask its deeply political character."—Ethics and International Affairs"Engaged, sometimes passionate. Viewing the human rights commitment as a self-justifying crusade, he points toward an innovative direction of research."—Human Rights Review. Mutua's book is an inspiring one
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