Henders, Susan J. <br/><br/>
Human Rights and the Arts :  Perspectives on Global Asia. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (255 pages) 
 - Global Encounters: Studies in Comparative Political Theory Series .
 - Global Encounters: Studies in Comparative Political Theory Series .
<br/><br/>Intro -- Title Page -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Human Rights and the Arts in Global Asia -- Freedoms and Democracies -- Love the Future -- "September" -- War and Atrocity -- Impacts and Legacies of War on Human Rights -- Incendiary Material -- Livelihoods, Place, and Ecologies -- Literary Lament on a Death Foretold -- Reading Peasants' Rights to Livelihood in Umar Kayam's "Sri Sumarah" and "Bawuk" -- The River, the People, and the State(s) -- Minorities, Nations, States, and Empires -- Abuse and Its Aftermath -- Chasing the Monster -- Human Rights and Human Wrongs -- Intersectionality, Hybridity, and the Minority Rights Subject -- Migrations, Transnationalisms, Universalisms -- Human Rights and the Poetics of "Migritude" -- Universal Rights and Separate Universes -- Afterword -- Confucius Institutes, Human Rights, and Global Asia -- Index -- About the Contributors. 
<br/><br/> By shifting the discussion of human rights away from the binaries of cultural relativism and political sovereignty, this book moves toward a new understanding of human rights that takes account of the diverse contexts central to being human and living a life of dignity. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780739184745 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Arts and society - Asia.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JC599.A78 H8325 2014 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>323.095