Constructing Human Rights in the Age of Globalization

by Monshipouri,Mahmood

• ISBN13: 9780765611383
• ISBN10: 0765611384
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2003-07-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Both human rights and globalization are powerful ideas and processes, capable of transforming the world in profound ways. Notwithstanding their universal claims, however, the processes are constructed, and they draw their power from the specific cultural and political contexts in which they are constructed. Far from bringing about a harmonious cosmopolitan order, they have stimulated conflict and opposition. In the context of globalization, as the idea of human rights has become universal, its meaning has become one more terrain of struggle among groups with their own interests and goals. Part I of this volume looks at political and cultural struggles to control the human rights regime -- that is, the power to construct the universal claims that will prevail in a territory -- with respect to property, the state, the environment, and women. Part II examines the dynamics and counterdynamics of transnational networks in their interactions with local actors in Iran, China, and Hong Kong. Part III looks at the prospects for fruitful human rights dialogue between "co

Table of Contents

Introduction: Observing Human Rights in the Age of Globalization

The Struggle to Control the Human Rights Regime

Who Owns Culture?: Intellectual Property, Human Rights, and Globalization

The Consequences of a Constructed Universal: Democracy and Civil Rights in the Modern State

Reflections on the Intersections of Environment, Development and Human Rights in the Crucible of Globalization

Translating a Liberal Feminism: Revisiting Susan Okin on Freedom, Culture, and Women's Rights

The Dynamics and Counter-dynamics of Globalization

The Politics of Culture and Human Rights in Iran: Globalizing and Localizing Dynamics

Outside Actors and the Pursuit of Civil Society in China: Harnessing the Forces of Globalization

Globalization and Human Rights for Workers in China: Convergence or Collision?

Localizing Human Rights in an Era of Globalization: The Case of Hong Kong

Setting the Terms of Debate: Pursuing Global Consensus

The Challenge to International Human Rights

Obstacles on the Road to an Overlapping Consensus on Human Rights

Globalizing Cultural Values: International Human Rights Discourse as Moral Persuasion

Suffering as Common Ground

Conclusion: Reconstructing Human Rights in the Global Society

About the Contributors

Index

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