Christian Lund (ed.)

Development and Rights

Negotiating Justice in Changing Societies
Herausgeber: Lund, Christian

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays hand explores a major undercurrent of the debate on rights, namely the question of universalism and cultural relativism. It also explores how rights are claimed and contested, vindicated and politicized and, in different ways, transform social practice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 217mm x 155mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 313g
• ISBN-13: 9780714649412
• ISBN-10: 0714649414
• Artikelnr.: 21008226

Autorenporträt

Christian Lund

Inhaltsangabe

Development and rights - tempering universalism and relativism, Christian
Lund; on universal morality and the morality of universalism, Zygmunt
Bauman; universal rights and the historical context, Per Bauhn; changing
African land tenure - reflections on the incapacities of the state, Sally
Falk Moore; politics and struggles for access to land - grants from above
and squatters in coastal Kenya, Karuti Kanyinga; past wrongs and gender
rights - issues and conflicts in South Africa's land reform, Susie Jacobs;
women's human rights and African customary laws - between universalism and
relativism - individualism and communitarianism, Anne Hellum; the interplay
between collective rights and obligations and individual rights, Rie
Odgaard, Agnette Weiss Bentzon; governance as multilateral development bank
policy - the cases of the African Development Bank and the Asian
Development Bank.