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Human rights and the Third World : issues and discourses

Title
Human rights and the Third World : issues and discourses / edited by Subrata Sankar Bagchi and Arnab Das.
ISBN
9780739177358 (cloth : alk. paper)
0739177354 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780739177365 (electronic)
0739177362 (electronic)
Published
Lanham, Md : Lexington Books, c2013.
Physical Description
viii, 420 pages ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 22, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Universal claim and postcolonial realities : the deep unease over western-centered human rights standards in the global South / Marie-Luisa Frick
Progressive realization of the right to development in India / Clarence J. Dias
Development and environmental issues vis-à-vis current perspectives of human rights / Aniruddha Mukhopadhyay and Sayan Bhattacharya
Human rights and corruption : the case of political corruption and opposition to human rights in Indonesia / Agus Wahyudi
Human rights and indigenous self-government : the Taiwanese experience / Scott Simon and Awi Mona (Chih-Wei Tsai)
Colonial continuities, neoliberal-hegemony and adivasi (original dweller) space : human rights as paradox and equivocation in contexts of dispossession in India / Dip Kapoor
Hindutva politics : impact on human rights / Ram Puniyani
Human rights violations in India : exploring the societal roots of marginality / Debi Chatterjee
Media, cultural rights and the Third World / Pranta Pratik Patnaik
The fault lines in Soviet-style accommodation of minority rights in Ethiopia / Semahagn Gashu
Human rights and the Third World other / Subrata Sankar Bagchi
Culture and issues of rights to the eyes of the Indians with "other" self-identities of sexuality and gender / Arnab Das and Pawan Dhall
Roots and shoots of female feticide in pockets of India : lending voice to the voiceless / Tushar Kanti Saha
The rights of people living with disability in the Third World context : the Zimbabwean pentecostal concept of "curses and blessings" in the light of disability / Francis Machingura
The Indian disability rights paradigm : the reality versus rhetoric / Anuradha Saibaba Rajesh
"People's health in people's hand" : story of a voluntary organization in rural West Bengal / Satyabrata Chakrborty
Human rights and information society : problematizing India / Dipankar Sinha
Biotechnology and human rights / Subhasis Mukhopadhyay.
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