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Global justice and the bulwarks of localism : human rights in context
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Global justice and the bulwarks of localism : human rights in context

Author: Christopher L Eisgruber; András Sajó
Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : M. Nijhoff, ©2005.
Edition/Format: Book : Conference publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Conference publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Christopher L Eisgruber; András Sajó
ISBN: 9004145710 9789004145719
OCLC Number: 59617318
Notes: Papers presented at a conference held Oct. 2003 at Princeton University.
Description: xv, 346 p. ; 25 cm.
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.
Responsibility: edited by Christopher L. Eisgruber and András Sajó.
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