International Human Rights, Decolonisation, Globalisation: Becoming Human (Routledge Studies in International Law, 3)

Covering a diverse range of topics, case studies and theories, the author undertakes a critique of the principal assumptions on which the existing international human rights regime has been constructed. She argues that the decolonization of human rights, and the creation of a global community that is conducive to the well-being of all humans, will require a radical restructuring of our ways of thinking, researching and writing. In contributing to this restructuring she brings together feminist and indigenous approaches as well as postmodern and post-colonial scholarship, engaging directly with some of the prevailing orthodoxies, such as 'universality', 'the individual', 'self-determination', 'cultural relativism', 'globalization' and 'civil society'. Shelley Wright. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [227]-259) And Index. The search for national identity, self-determination and development in Protecting the culture and knowledge of indigenous peoples: Australia Property and the public / private dichotomy in human rights The debate over the nature of civil society in Europe The right to live and self-determination: Somalia Contradictions within the lazes against torture Copyright and the growth of Western liberalism The primacy of the visual and individualism Militarism, gender and the citizen/soldier The Universal Declaration of Human Rights The Bretton Woods system and human rights The development of the literate subject The paradox of culture and human rights The spoken word and the printed text A history of printing and copyright The nature of the literate subject