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Constructing Human Rights in the Age of Globalization
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Description: Both human rights and globalization are powerful ideas and processes, capable of transforming the world in profound ways. Notwithstanding their universal claims, however, the processes are constructed, and they draw their power from the specific cultural and political contexts in which they are constructed. Far from bringing about a harmonious cosmopolitan order, they have stimulated conflict and opposition. In the context of globalization, as the idea of human rights has become universal, its meaning has become one more terrain of struggle among groups with their own interests and goals.
Part I of this volume looks at political and cultural struggles to control the human rights regime -- that is, the power to construct the universal claims that will prevail in a territory -- with respect to property, the state, the environment, and women. Part II examines the dynamics and counterdynamics of transnational networks in their interactions with local actors in Iran, China, and Hong Kong. Part III looks at the prospects for fruitful human rights dialogiue between "competing universalisms" that by definition are intolerant of conradiction and averse to compromise.
Selected Contents:
Introduction: Observing Human Rights in the Age of Globalization Neil A. Englehart, Mahmood Monshipouri, Andrew J. Nathan, Kavita Philip
Part I. The Struggle to Control the Human Rights Regime
1. Who Owns Culture?: Intellectual Property, Human Rights, and Globalization Caren Irr
2. The Consequences of a Constructed Universal: Democracy and Civil Rights in the Modern State Neil A. Englehart
3. Reflections on the Intersections of Environment, Development and Human Rights in the Crucible of Globalization Kavita Philip
4. Translating a Liberal Feminism: Revisiting Susan Okin on Freedom, Culture, and Women's Rights Ellen Freeberg
Part II. The Dynamics and Counter-dynamics of Globalization
5. The Politics of Culture and Human Rights in Iran: Globalizing and Localizing Dynamics Mahmood Monshipouri
6. Outside Actors and the Pursuit of Civil Society in China: Harnessing the Forces of Globalization Rebecca Moore
7. Globalization and Human Rights for Workers in China: Convergence or Collision? Dorothy J. Solinger
8. Localizing Human Rights in an Era of Globalization: The Case of Hong Kong Linda Butenhoff
Part III. Setting the Terms of Debate: Pursuing Global Consensus
9. The Challenge to International Human Rights Joanne Bauer
10. Obstacles on the Road to an Overlapping Consensus on Human Rights Charles Lockhart
11. Globalizing Cultural Values: International Human Rights Discourse as Moral Persuasion Chenyang Li
12. Suffering as Common Ground John Downey
Conclusion: Reconstructing Human Rights in the Global Society Andrew J. Nathan, Mahmood Monshipouri, Neil Englehart, Kavita Philip
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Review(s): ...very much worth reading for scholars, students and activists alike. Human Rights & Human Welfare
    
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