Domesticating Human Rights

Author : Fidèle Ingiyimbere
Publisher : Springer
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319576213

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Domesticating Human Rights by Fidèle Ingiyimbere Pdf

This book develops a philosophical conception of human rights that responds satisfactorily to the challenges raised by cultural and political critics of human rights, who contend that the contemporary human rights movement is promoting an imperialist ideology, and that the humanitarian intervention for protecting human rights is a neo-colonialism. These claims affect the normativity and effectiveness of human rights; that is why they have to be taken seriously. At the same time, the same philosophical account dismisses the imperialist crusaders who support the imperialistic use of human rights by the West to advance liberal culture. Thus, after elaborating and exposing these criticisms, the book confronts them to the human rights theories of John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas, in order to see whether they can be addressed. Unfortunately, they are not. Therefore, having shown that these two philosophical accounts of human rights do not respond convincingly to those the postco lonial challenges, the book provides an alternative conception that draws the understanding of human rights from local practices. It is a multilayer conception which is not centered on state, but rather integrates it in a larger web of actors involved in shaping the practice and meaning of human rights. Confronted to the challenges, this new conception offers a promising way for addressing them satisfactorily, and it even sheds new light to the classical questions of universality of human rights, as well as the tension between universalism and relativism.

Author : C. C. Nweze
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : 9781565292

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Current Themes in the Domestication of Human Rights Norms by C. C. Nweze Pdf

Author : Jörg Fisch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107037960

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A History of the Self-Determination of Peoples by Jörg Fisch Pdf

This book examines the conceptual and political history of the right of self-determination of peoples.

Author : National Academy of Sciences
Publisher : Sackler Colloquium
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015073872999

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In the Light of Evolution by National Academy of Sciences Pdf

The Arthur M. Sackler Colloquia of the National Academy of Sciences address scientific topics of broad and current interest, cutting across the boundaries of traditional disciplines. Each year, four or five such colloquia are scheduled, typically two days in length and international in scope. Colloquia are organized by a member of the Academy, often with the assistance of an organizing committee, and feature presentations by leading scientists in the field and discussions with a hundred or more researchers with an interest in the topic. Colloquia presentations are recorded and posted on the National Academy of Sciences Sackler colloquia website and published on CD-ROM. These Colloquia are made possible by a generous gift from Mrs. Jill Sackler, in memory of her husband, Arthur M. Sackler.

Author : Raymond Pierotti,Brandy R. Fogg
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780300231670

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The First Domestication by Raymond Pierotti,Brandy R. Fogg Pdf

A riveting look at how dog and humans became best friends, and the first history of dog domestication to include insights from indigenous peoples In this fascinating book, Raymond Pierotti and Brandy Fogg change the narrative about how wolves became dogs and in turn, humanity’s best friend. Rather than describe how people mastered and tamed an aggressive, dangerous species, the authors describe coevolution and mutualism. Wolves, particularly ones shunned by their packs, most likely initiated the relationship with Paleolithic humans, forming bonds built on mutually recognized skills and emotional capacity. This interdisciplinary study draws on sources from evolutionary biology as well as tribal and indigenous histories to produce an intelligent, insightful, and often unexpected story of cooperative hunting, wolves protecting camps, and wolf-human companionship. This fascinating assessment is a must-read for anyone interested in human evolution, ecology, animal behavior, anthropology, and the history of canine domestication.

Author : U. Oji Umozurike
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004636491

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The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights by U. Oji Umozurike Pdf

This book is an in-depth study of the African Charter of Human and Peoples' Rights, written with the insight of an insider. It assesses the effectiveness of the Charter and of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights in its formative years. It also compares the Charter with other major human rights instruments. The author asserts that respect for human rights made the existence of African societies possible despite the eras of gross violation. The survival of African societies, indeed their continued development, depends on respect for human rights. While conceding the universality of human rights, the author underscores African specificities and pecularities. He discusses the proper limits of `exclusively internal matters', as often claimed by African spokesmen, and puts forward the legitimate concerns of the international community as an effective check to arbitrariness and other violations. The book will be of special interest to international lawyers, law students, the judiciary and foreign office officials. The human rights activist will find it particularly useful in dealing with the African situation.

Author : Luc Boltanski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1999-10-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521659531

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Distant Suffering by Luc Boltanski Pdf

Distant Suffering, first published in 1999, examines the moral and political implications for a spectator of the distant suffering of others as presented through the media. What are the morally acceptable responses to the sight of suffering on television, for example, when the viewer cannot act directly to affect the circumstances in which the suffering takes place? Luc Boltanski argues that spectators can actively involve themselves and others by speaking about what they have seen and how they were affected by it. Developing ideas in Adam Smith's moral theory, he examines three rhetorical 'topics' available for the expression of the spectator's response to suffering: the topics of denunciation and of sentiment and the aesthetic topic. The book concludes with a discussion of a 'crisis of pity' in relation to modern forms of humanitarianism. A possible way out of this crisis is suggested which involves an emphasis and focus on present suffering.

Author : Charles Stépanoff,Jean-Denis Vigne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351717977

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Hybrid Communities by Charles Stépanoff,Jean-Denis Vigne Pdf

Domestication challenges our understanding of human-environment relationships because it blurs the dichotomy between what is artificial and what is natural. In domestication, biological evolution, environmental change, techniques and practices, anthropological trajectories and sociocultural choices are inextricably interconnected. Domestication is essentially a hybrid phenomenon that needs to be explored with hybrid scientific approaches. Hybrid Communities: Biosocial Approaches to Domestication and Other Trans-species Relationships attempts for the first time to explore domestication viewed from across disciplines both in its origins and as an ongoing process. This edited collection proposes new biosocial approaches and concepts which integrate the methods of social sciences, archaeology and biology to shed new light on domestication in diachrony and in synchrony. This book will be of great interest to all scholars working on human-environment relationships, and should also attract readers from the fields of social anthropology, archaeology, genetics, ecology, botany, zoology, history and philosophy.

Author : Simon Halliday,Patrick Schmidt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004-08-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781847311665

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Human Rights Brought Home by Simon Halliday,Patrick Schmidt Pdf

What practical impact does the incorporation of international human rights standards into domestic law have? This collection of essays explores human rights in domestic legal systems. The enactment of the Human Rights Act in 1998, ushering the European Convention on Human Rights fully into UK law, represented a landmark in the UK constitutional order. Other European states similarly have elevated the status of human rights in their domestic legal systems. However, whilst much has been written about doctrinal legal developments, little is yet known about the empirical effects of bringing rights home. This collection of essays, written by a range of distinguished socio-legal scholars, seeks to fill this gap in our knowledge. The essays, presenting new empirical research, begin their enquiry where many studies in human rights finish. The contributors do not stop at the recognition of international law and norms by states, but penetrate the internal workings of domestic legal systems to see the law in action - - as it is developed, contested, manipulated, or even ignored by actors such as judges, lawyers, civil servants, interest groups, and others. This distinctly socio-legal approach offers a unique contribution to the literature on human rights, exploring human rights law-in-action in developed countries. In doing so, it demonstrates the importance of looking beyond grand generalities and the hopes of international human rights law in order to understand the impact of the global human rights movement.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : African Charter on Human and People's Rights
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132091823

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Human Rights Litigation and the Domestication of International Human Rights Standards in Sub-Saharan Africa by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jeremy Prestholdt
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520254244

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Domesticating the World by Jeremy Prestholdt Pdf

“ Ingeniously stands the study of globalization and trade on its head.”—Edward Alpers, Chair of Department of History, UCLA

Author : Juliet Clutton-Brock
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781609173142

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Animals as Domesticates by Juliet Clutton-Brock Pdf

Drawing on the latest research in archaeozoology, archaeology, and molecular biology, Animals as Domesticates traces the history of the domestication of animals around the world. From the llamas of South America and the turkeys of North America, to the cattle of India and the Australian dingo, this fascinating book explores the history of the complex relationships between humans and their domestic animals. With expert insight into the biological and cultural processes of domestication, Clutton-Brock suggests how the human instinct for nurturing may have transformed relationships between predator and prey, and she explains how animals have become companions, livestock, and laborers. The changing face of domestication is traced from the spread of the earliest livestock around the Neolithic Old World through ancient Egypt, the Greek and Roman empires, South East Asia, and up to the modern industrial age.

Author : Alexander Orakhelashvili
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781788111423

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Domesticating Kelsen by Alexander Orakhelashvili Pdf

There exists a genuine degree of scepticism as to whether Hans Kelsen’s pure theory of law can rationalise the intricacies of the English legal system. This ground-breaking book examines pertinent aspects of English law relating to constitutional patterns of law-making, the relationship between law and policy, and the ultimate efficacy of the legal order, through the pure theory’s prism. It demonstrates that while Kelsen’s theory is highly suitable to examine some of these issues, in relation to some aspects of English law it actually possesses the analytical cutting edge.

Author : Rachel Murray,Debra Long
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781800372283

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Research Handbook on Implementation of Human Rights in Practice by Rachel Murray,Debra Long Pdf

Building upon the growing body of scholarship on the factors and actors that influence the extent to which states implement human rights law, this cutting-edge Research Handbook takes an interdisciplinary approach to exploring the roles of actors within supranational human rights bodies, the decisions and judgements they make, and the tools they use to facilitate human rights implementation.

Author : Tomeka M. Robinson,Sabrina Singh,Christina Mary Joseph
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781666936933

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A Culturally Centered and Intersectional Approach to Reproductive Justice by Tomeka M. Robinson,Sabrina Singh,Christina Mary Joseph Pdf

This book focuses on reproductive justice through a culturally-centered and intersectional lens. The autoethnographic nature of each chapter allows contributors to unpack issues surrounding reproductive justice from their perspectives and allows readers to look towards understanding the issue from a personal and structural level.