A Human Right to Culture and Identity : The Ambivalence of Group Rights.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (222 pages)
- Studies in Social and Global Justice Series .
- Studies in Social and Global Justice Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Tables -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: Decisive Approaches to Collective Rights, Culture, and Identity -- Chapter One: Liberalism and Communitarianism -- Part II: Rethinking the Key Themes -- Chapter Two: Society and Culture -- Chapter Three: Identity -- Part III: Indigenous Human Rights -- Chapter Four: Indigenous Rights in History and the Present -- Chapter Five: Indigenous Demands in the United Nations -- Chapter Six: Indigenous Rights -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- References -- Index.
Pursues the possibilities and limits of the UN's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by connecting theoretical discussions with empirical evidence, taken from extensive participant observation and on the qualitative content analysis of indigenous and state documents.