Human Rights and the Borders of Suffering
The Promotion of Human Rights in International Politics
By Anne Brown and M. Anne Brown
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- Format: Hardcover
- ISBN: 978-0-7190-6105-9
- Pages: 240
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Price: £50.00
- Published Date: August 2002
- BIC Category: Society & social sciences / International relations, Society & social sciences / Human rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, Human rights, civil rights, International relations, Politics
- Series: New Approaches to Conflict Analysis
Description
This study of human rights argues for a greater openness in the ways we approach human rights and international rights promotion. Starting with the realities of abuse rather than the liberal architectures of rights, it casts human rights as a language for probing the political dimensions of suffering, and shows Western rights models as substantial but problematic. Brown shows that rather than a message from "us" to "them", rights promotion is a long and difficult conversation about the relationship between political organisation and suffering. Three case studies are explored - the Tiananmen Square massacre, East Timor and the circumstances of indigenous Australians.
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