Decolonization, self-determination, and the rise of global human rights politics
This volume presents the first global history of human rights politics in the age of decolonization. The conflict between independence movements and colonial powers shaped the global human rights order that emerged after the Second World War. It was also critical to the genesis of contemporary human...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
2020.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
Human rights in history. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b42144796*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Human rights, empire, and after / Roland Burke, Marco Duranti, and A. Dirk Moses
- Seeking the political kingdom : universal human rights and the anti-colonial movement in Africa / Bonny Ibhawoh
- Decolonizing the United Nations : anti-colonialism and human rights in the French Empire / Marco Duranti
- The French Red Cross, decolonization, and humanitarianism during the Algerian War / Jennifer Johnson
- Connecting indigenous rights to human rights in the Anglo settler states : another 1970s story / Miranda Johnson
- Privileging the Cold War over decolonization : the US emphasis on political rights / Mary Ann Heiss
- Cutting out the ulcer and washing away the incubus of the past : genocide prevention through population transfer / A. Dirk Moses
- Codifying minority rights : postcolonial constitutionalism in Burma, Ceylon, and India / Cindy Ewing
- Between ambitions and caution : India, human rights and self-determination at the United Nations / Raphaëlle Khan
- "From this era of passionate self-discovery" : Norman Manley, human rights, and the end of colonial rule in Jamacia / Steven L.B. Jensen
- Re-entering histories of past imperial violence : Kenya, Indonesia, and the reach of transitional justice / Michael Humphrey
- The inventors of human rights in Africa : Portugal, late colonialism, and the UN human rights regime / Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo and José Pedro Monteiro
- "A world made safe for diversity" : apartheid and the language of human rights, progress, and pluralism / Roland Burke
- Between humanitarian rights and human rights : René Cassin, architect of universality, diplomat of French Empire / Jay Winter
- The end of the Vietnam War and the rise of human rights / Barbara Keys
- Decolonizing the Geneva Conventions : national liberation and the development of humanitarian law / Eleanor Davey
- Liberté sans Frontières, French humanitarianism, and the neoliberal critique of Third Worldism / Jessica Whyte.
