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Human Rights

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Format Paperback / softback
Book Series Key Ideas
ISBN-10 0415360692
ISBN-13 9780415360692
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint Routledge
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Feb 24th, 2005
Print length 192 Pages
Weight 214 grams
Dimensions 19.90 x 13.20 x 1.10 cms
KSh 7,900.00
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Drawing on resources in classical and contemporary social theory and working through case studies of Britain, the US and Japan, Woodiwiss provides, for the first time, a general sociological account of the development of human rights.

Are human rights part of the problem or part of the solution in the current ''clash of civilizations''? Drawing on a hitherto neglected body of work in classical social theory and combining it with ideas derived from Barrington Moore, Norbert Elias and Michel Foucault, Woodiwiss poses and answers the questions:

  • How did human rights become entangled with power relations?
  • How might the nature of this entanglement be altered so that human rights better serve the global majority?

In answering these questions, he explains how and why rights discourse developed in such distinctive ways in four key locations: Britain, the United States, Japan and in the UN. On this basis he provides, for the first time, a general sociological account of the development of international human rights discourse, which represents a striking challenge to current thinking and policy.


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