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9780739108789

From the Margins of Globalization Critical Perspectives on Human Rights

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  • ISBN13:

    9780739108789

  • ISBN10:

    0739108786

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-10-14
  • Publisher: Lexington Books
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Summary

In From the Margins of Globalization, Neve Gordon assembles work from leading intellectuals and activists in the field of human rights. Each essay in this volume discusses a community or issue left adrift in the wake of global capitalism. Whether it's Mohammad Khatami writing on the United Nations and its role after 9/11 or ftienne Balibar thinking through universalism, racism, and sexism this book comprises a core challenge to human rights by focusing on what lies beyond the margins of a world in constant flux.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi
Abbreviations xiii
Introduction: Human Rights as Being-Marginal-in-the-World 1(24)
Neve Gordon
Part I: Cross-Cultural Dialogue and Universalism
Islam, Iran, and the Dialogue of Civilizations
25(18)
Mohammad Khatami
Racism, Sexism, Universalism(s)
43(20)
Etienne Balibar
Part II: Development and Economic Rights
Between Despots and Banks: A Human Rights Response to Africa's Debt Crisis
63(24)
Mulela Margaret Munalula
Socioeconomic Rights, Radical Democracy, and Power: South Africa as a Case Study
87(42)
Ran Greenstein
Part III: Globalization and the Rights of Stateless People
New Formulas, Old Sins: Human Rights Abuses against Migrant Workers, Asylum Seekers, and Refugees in the Americas
129(32)
Andreas E. Feldmann
Helena Olea
At the Border of Rights: Migration, Sex Work, and Trafficking
161(34)
Audrey Macklin
Part IV: The Body, the Mind, and Health Rights
The Right to Madness: From the Personal to the Political---Psychiatry and Human Rights
195(28)
Ruchama Marton
Embodying Shadows: Tracing the Contours of Women's Rights to Health
223(38)
Alicia Yamin
Part V: Human Rights and Accountability
Human Rights and Sacred Cows: Framing Violence, Disappearing Struggles
261(36)
Vasuki Nesiah
Alan Keenan
Index 297(12)
About the Contributors 309

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