Negotiating Culture and Human Rights

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Paperback | 22 February 2001 | Edition Number 1

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Since the human-rights atrocities of World War II, this critical issue has stood at the forefront of international relations. The question of universal human rights is inherently embroiled in power politics, but it has also given rise to a renewed intellectual debate over issues of cultural relativism versus universalism. This volume draws essays from a summer seminar for college teachers sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities at Columbia University. Central to their discussion is the "Asian values debate", so named because of the relativist ideals embraced by recent Asian governments. By tracing the relativist and universalist arguments of human rights through such issues as criminal justice, women's rights, and ethnicity, the contributors forge a new way of looking at this dichotomy. This new view is articulated as a sort of "chastened universalism," not as concerned with searching for pre-existing common values among different cultures, but for ways to create them.

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Contributors	p. xi
Human Rights and the Asian Values Debate
Introduction: Culture and Human Rights	p. 3
Who Produces Asian Identity? Discourse, Discrimination, and Chinese Peasant Women in the Quest for Human Rights	p. 21
Culturally Informed Arguments for Universal Human Rights
Getting Beyond Cross-Talk: Why Persisting Disagreements Are Philosophically Nonfatal	p. 45
Western Defensiveness and the Defense of Rights: A Communitarian Alternative	p. 68
Rights Hunting in Non-Western Traditions	p. 96
Human Rights Law and Its Limits
How a Liberal Jurist Defends the Bangkok Declaration	p. 125
Are Women Human? The Promise and Perils of "Women's Rights as Human Rights"	p. 153
Re-Positioning Human Rights Discourse on "Asian" Perspectives	p. 197
Rights Discourse and Power Relations
Human Rights and the Discourse on Universality: A Chinese Historical Perspective	p. 217
Jihad Over Human Rights, Human Rights as Jihad: Clash of Universals	p. 242
Universalization of the Rejection of Human Rights: Russia's Case	p. 258
Ethnicity and Human Rights in Contemporary Democracies: Israel and Other Cases	p. 303
Walking Two Roads: Reading Human Rights in Contemporary Chinese Fiction	p. 334
Beyond Universalism and Relativism
Universalism: A Particularistic Account	p. 349
Dedichotomizing Discourse: Three Gorges, Two Cultures, One Nature	p. 369
Universal Declaration on Human Rights	p. 383
Bangkok Declaration on Human Rights	p. 390
Bangkok NGO Declaration on Human Rights	p. 395
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women	p. 404
Index	p. 415
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