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Decolonization, self-determination, and the rise of global human rights politics
Title
Decolonization, self-determination, and the rise of global human rights politics / edited by A. Dirk Moses, Marco Duranti, Roland Burke.
ISBN
9781108783170 (ebook)
9781108479356 (hardback)
9781108749701 (paperback)
Publication
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 435 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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Summary
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 rights organizations and humanitarian movements. Anti-colonial forces mobilized human rights and other rights language in their campaigns for self-determination. In response, European empires harnessed the new international politics of human rights for their own ends, claiming that their rule, with its promise of 'development,' was the authentic vehicle for realizing them. Ranging from the postwar partitions and the wars of independence to Indigenous rights activism and post-colonial memory, this volume offers new insights into the history and legacies of human rights, self-determination, and empire to the present day.
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Cambridge core frontlist 2020.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 20, 2020
Series
Human rights in history
Contents
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.
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