Negotiating culture and human rights
By: Lynda S. Bell, Andrew J. Nathan, and Ilan Peleg, editors
Contributors: Bell, Lynda Schaefer; Nathan, Andrew J.; Peleg, Ilan, 1944-
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 428
Subjects: Human rights -- Cross-cultural studies
Genres: Cross-cultural studies
Description: "Negotiating Culture and Human Rights provides a new interdisciplinary approach to issues of cultural values and universal human rights. Central to the discussion is the "Asian values debate," so named because of the culturally relativist ideals embraced by some key Asian governments. By analyzing how cultural difference and human rights operate in theory and practice in such areas as legal equality, women's rights, and ethnicity, the contributors forge a new way of looking at these critical issues. They call their approach "chastened universalism," arguing that respect for others' values need not lead to sterile, relativist views. Ultimately the authors conclude that it is less important to discover pre-existing common values across cultures than to create them through dialogue and debate."--Book cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction: culture and human rights / Lynda S. Bell, Andrew J. Nathan, and Ilan Peleg.; title: Who produces Asian identity? : discourse, discrimination, and Chinese peasant women in the quest for human rights / Lynda S. Bell; title: Getting beyond cross-talk: why persisting disagreements are philosophically nonfatal / Michael G. Barnhart; title: Western defensiveness and the defense of rights: a communitarian alternative / Kenneth E. Morris; title: Rights hunting in non-western traditions / Steven J. Hood; title: How a liberal jurist defends the Bangkok Declaration / Michael W. Dowdle; title: Are women human?  the promise and perils of "women's rights as human rights" / Lucinda Joy Peach; title: Re-positioning human rights discourse on "Asian" perspectives / Sharon K. Hom; title: Human rights and the discourse on universality: a Chinese historical perspective / Xiaoqun Xu; title: Jihad over human rights, human rights as jihad: clash of universals / Farhat Haq; title: Universalization of the rejection of human rights: Russia's case / Dmitry Shlapentokh; title: Ethnicity and human rights in contemporary democracies: Israel and other cases / Ilan Peleg; title: Walking two roads: reading human rights in contemporary Chinese fiction / Tomas N. Santos; title: Universalism: a particularistic account / Andrew J. Nathan; title: Dedichotomizing discourse: three gorges, two cultures, one nature / Jennifer R. Goodman