Decolonization, Self-Determination, and the Rise of Global Human Rights Politics (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Moses, A. Dirk

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume presents the first global history of human rights politics in the age of decolonization. The conflict between independence movements and colonial powers shaped the global human rights order that emerged after the Second World War. It was also critical to the genesis of contemporary human rights organizations and humanitarian movements. Anti-colonial forces mobilized human rights and other rights language in their campaigns for self-determination. In response, European empires harnessed the new international politics of human rights for their own ends, claiming that their rule, with its promise of 'development,' was the authentic vehicle for realizing them. Ranging from the postwar partitions and the wars of independence to Indigenous rights activism and post-colonial memory, this volume offers new insights into the history and legacies of human rights, self-determination, and empire to the present day.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108805193
• Artikelnr.: 60863400

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Human rights, empire, and after Roland Burke, Marco Duranti
and A. Dirk Moses; Part I. Anti-colonial struggles and the right to
self-determination: 1. Seeking the political kingdom: universal human
rights and the anti-colonial movement in Africa Bonny Ibhawoh; 2.
Decolonizing the United Nations: Anti-colonialism and human rights in the
French Empire Marco Duranti; 3. The French Red Cross, decolonization, and
humanitarianism during the Algerian War Jennifer Johnson; 4. Connecting
indigenous rights to human rights in the Anglo settler states: Another
1970s story Miranda Johnson; 5. Privileging the Cold War over
decolonization: The US emphasis on political rights Mary Ann Heiss; Part
II. Post-colonial statehood and global human rights norms: 6. Cutting out
the ulcer and washing away the incubus of the past: genocide prevention
through population transfer A. Dirk Moses; 7. Codifying minority rights:
postcolonial constitutionalism in Burma, Ceylon, and India Cindy Ewing; 8.
Between ambitions and caution: India, human rights, and self-determination
at the United Nations Raphaëlle Khan; 9. 'From this era of passionate
self-discovery': Norman Manley, human rights, and the end of colonial rule
in Jamaica Steven L. B. Jensen; 10. Re-entering histories of past imperial
violence: Kenya, Indonesia, and the reach of transitional justice Michael
Humphrey; Part III. Colonial and neo-colonial responses; 11. The inventors
of human rights in Africa: Portugal, late colonialism, and the UN human
rights regime Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo and José Pedro Monteiro; 12. 'A
world made safe for diversity': Apartheid and the language of human rights,
progress, and pluralism Roland Burke; 13. Between humanitarian rights and
human rights: René Cassin, architect of universality, diplomat of French
Empire Jay Winter; 14. The end of the Vietnam War and the rise of human
rights Barbara Keys; 15. Decolonizing the Geneva Conventions: national
liberation and the development of humanitarian law Eleanor Davey;
16. Liberté sans frontières, French humanitarianism, and the neoliberal
critique of Third Worldism Jessica Whyte.