The Work of Global Justice : Human Rights as Practices
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
ISBN-10
0521673917
ISBN-13
9780521673914
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 11th, 2007
Print length
258 Pages
Weight
416 grams
Dimensions
22.80 x 15.30 x 1.50 cms
Product Classification:
Social theoryHuman rightsHuman rights, civil rights
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Fuyuki Kurasawa develops a new perspective on human rights and the creation of an alternative globalization. Focusing on how groups and persons struggling against transnational injustices act, he identifies five modes of practice (bearing witness, forgiveness, foresight, aid and solidarity) that represent the ethical and political substance of global justice.
Human rights have been generally understood as juridical products, organizational outcomes or abstract principles that are realized through formal means such as passing laws, creating institutions or formulating ideals. In this book, Fuyuki Kurasawa argues that we must reverse this 'top-down' focus by examining how groups and persons struggling against global injustices construct and enact human rights through five transnational forms of ethico-political practice: bearing witness, forgiveness, foresight, aid and solidarity. From these, he develops a new perspective highlighting the difficult social labour that constitutes the substance of what global justice is and ought to be, thereby reframing the terms of debates about human rights and providing the outlines of a critical cosmopolitanism centred around emancipatory struggles for an alternative globalization.
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