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Human Rights and the Arts : Perspectives on Global Asia.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Global Encounters: Studies in Comparative Political Theory SeriesPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (255 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780739184745
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Human Rights and the ArtsDDC classification:
  • 323.095
LOC classification:
  • JC599.A78 H8325 2014
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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