International Human Rights, Decolonisation and Globalisation

Download or read book International Human Rights, Decolonisation and Globalisation written by Shelley Wright and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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'.