A01=Anthony Woodiwiss
Author_Anthony Woodiwiss
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CEDAW
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classical social theory
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Communist Party Cases
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Contemporary Human Rights Discourse
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Human Rights
Human Rights Story
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International Human Rights Discourse
Ius Cosmopoliticum
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Liberal Democratic Political Philosophy
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Meiji Constitution
Miranda Rules
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Occupation's Duration
Occupation’s Duration
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Promissory Estoppel
RIGHTS DISCOURSE
RIGHTS REGIMES
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Simple Commodity Production
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Social Structural Particularities
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Product details
- ISBN 9780415360685
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 24 Feb 2005
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Are human rights part of the problem or part of the solution in the current 'clash of civilizations'? Drawing on a hitherto neglected body of work in classical social theory and combining it with ideas derived from Barrington Moore, Norbert Elias and Michel Foucault, Woodiwiss poses and answers the questions:
- How did human rights become entangled with power relations?
- How might the nature of this entanglement be altered so that human rights better serve the global majority?
In answering these questions, he explains how and why rights discourse developed in such distinctive ways in four key locations: Britain, the United States, Japan and in the UN. On this basis he provides, for the first time, a general sociological account of the development of international human rights discourse, which represents a striking challenge to current thinking and policy.
Anthony Woodiwiss is Professor and head of department for Sociology, at City University, London.
