Concept of Human Rights in Africa (e-bog) af Shivji, G.
Shivji, G. (forfatter)

Concept of Human Rights in Africa e-bog

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Hitherto the human rights debate in Africa has concentrated on the legal and philosophical. The author, Professor of Law at the University of Dar es Salaam, here moves the debate to the social and political planes. He attempts to reconceptualise human rights ideology from the standpoint of the working people in Africa. He defines the approach as avoiding the pitfalls of the liberal perspective ...
E-bog 322,59 DKK
Forfattere Shivji, G. (forfatter)
Forlag Codesria
Udgivet 15 juni 1989
Længde 136 sider
Genrer African history
Sprog English
Format pdf
Beskyttelse LCP
ISBN 9782869784215
Hitherto the human rights debate in Africa has concentrated on the legal and philosophical. The author, Professor of Law at the University of Dar es Salaam, here moves the debate to the social and political planes. He attempts to reconceptualise human rights ideology from the standpoint of the working people in Africa. He defines the approach as avoiding the pitfalls of the liberal perspective as being absolutist in viewing human rights as a central question and the rights struggle as the backbone of democratic struggles. The author maintains that such a study cannot be politically neutral or intellectually uncommitted. Both the critique of dominant discourse and the reconceptualisation are located within the current social science and jurisprudential debates.