Mark Anikpo

Emerging Human Rights

The African Political Economy Context

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book, a collaborative effort by Port-Harcourt University, Nigeria, and the University of Denver, deals with important theoretical considerations about human rights in Africa. The African contribution to the political economic approach to human rights has been especially significant and will continue to grow. This edited collection addressses both theoretical issues and actual case studies of human rights violations in the African context. Shepherd, a pioneer in African studies, provides a pathbreaking overview of the political economy of African human rights. The volume itself is divided into two sections: theory and issues and violations. In the first section, the contributors consider such theoretical questions as the problems and prospects of creating an equitable world order based on the global right to distributive justice; three generations of African people's rights; the relationship between underdevelopment and human rights violations in Africa; theological perspectives on human rights; and the African experience in human rights issues and violations. The second section addresses specific human rights issues and violations of those rights. Among the situations explored are the impact of revolutionary violence on development, equality, and justice in South Africa, and the effects of militarization, migrants, and refugees on African human rights. Also examined are the African context of human rights development and the impact of Ghanaian black feminism. A comprehensive bibliography completes the volume. The unique perspective provided by African scholars, along with European and American scholars of black Africa, makes this book an important addition to the literature of human rights and African studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 1990
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 552g
• ISBN-13: 9780313268533
• ISBN-10: 0313268533
• Artikelnr.: 22113318

Autorenporträt

Mark Anikpo

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Political Economy of Universal Human Rights: The African
Context Theory The Right to Global Distributive Justice: An Enquiry into
the Problems and Prospects of Creating an Equitable World Order African
People's Rights: The Third Generation in a Global Perspective
Underdevelopment and Human Rights Violations in Africa Theological
Perspectives on Human Rights in the Context of the African Situation Human
Rights Issues and Violations: The African Experience Issues and Violations
Revolutionary Violence, Development, Equality, and Justice in South Africa
The Effect of Militarization on Human Rights in South Africa A Continent in
Crisis: Migrants and Refugees in Africa The African Context of Human
Rights: Development, Equality, and Justice Some Impressions of the Ghanaian
Version of Black Feminism Human Rights and Militarism in Nigeria Human
Rights and Self-Reliance in Africa Selected Bibliography Index