By shifting the discussion of human rights away from the binaries of cultural relativism and political sovereignty, this book moves toward a new understanding of human rights that takes account of the diverse contexts central to being human and living a life of dignity.
By shifting the discussion of human rights away from the binaries of cultural relativism and political sovereignty, this book moves toward a new understanding of human rights that takes account of the diverse contexts central to being human and living a life of dignity.
Susan J. Henders is associate professor of political science at York University. Lily Cho is associate professor of English at York University.
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1. Human Rights and the Arts in Global Asia: Conceptualizing Contexts Lily Cho and Susan J. Henders Part I Freedoms and Democracies 2. Love the Future: Ai Weiwei and Art for Human Rights Alice Ming Wai Jim 3. "September": Seeing Religion and Rights in Burma Alicia Turner Part II War and Atrocity 4. Impacts and Legacies of War on Human Rights: Perspectives from Duong Thu Huong's Novel Without a Name Van Nguyen-Marshall 5. Incendiary Material: Ethnicity and the Sri Lankan Civil Conflict in Anil's Ghost and Wilting Laughter Arun Nedra Rodrigo Part III Livelihoods, Place, and Ecologies 6. Literary Lament of a Death Foretold: Tibetan Writers on the Forced Settlement of Herders Françoise Robin 7. Reading Peasant Rights to Livelihood in Umar Kayam's "Sri Sumarah" and Bawuk" Mary M. Young 8. The River, the People and the State(s): Padma Nadir Majhi as a Meditation on Ecology and Human Rights Afsan Chowdhury Part IV Minorities, Nations, States, and Empires 9. Abuse and Its Aftermath: Kim Saryang's "Into the Light," Joy Kogawa's Obasan, and Yuasa Katsue's "Red Dates" Theodore W. Goossen 10. Chasing the Monster: The Representation of Korean Residents in Japan and Human Rights in Oshima Nagisa's Film Death by Hanging Jooyeon Rhee 11. Human Rights and Human Wrongs: Reading Shama Futehally's Reaching Bombay Central and Noor Zaheer's "A Life in Transit" Arun P. Mukherjee 12. Intersectionality, Hybridity, and the Minority Rights Subject: The Macanese of Macau in Literature, Film, and Law Susan J. Henders Part V Migrations, Transnationalisms, Universalisms 13. Human Rights and the Poetics of "Migritude": South Asian Diasporic Spoken Word Sailaja Krishnamurti 14. Universal Rights and Separate Universes: Local/National Identities, Global Power, and the Modeling and Representing of Human Rights in Indonesian Performance Arts Michael Bodden Part VI Afterword 15. Confucius Institutes, Human Rights, and Global Asia Lily Cho
1. Human Rights and the Arts in Global Asia: Conceptualizing Contexts Lily Cho and Susan J. Henders Part I Freedoms and Democracies 2. Love the Future: Ai Weiwei and Art for Human Rights Alice Ming Wai Jim 3. "September": Seeing Religion and Rights in Burma Alicia Turner Part II War and Atrocity 4. Impacts and Legacies of War on Human Rights: Perspectives from Duong Thu Huong's Novel Without a Name Van Nguyen-Marshall 5. Incendiary Material: Ethnicity and the Sri Lankan Civil Conflict in Anil's Ghost and Wilting Laughter Arun Nedra Rodrigo Part III Livelihoods, Place, and Ecologies 6. Literary Lament of a Death Foretold: Tibetan Writers on the Forced Settlement of Herders Françoise Robin 7. Reading Peasant Rights to Livelihood in Umar Kayam's "Sri Sumarah" and Bawuk" Mary M. Young 8. The River, the People and the State(s): Padma Nadir Majhi as a Meditation on Ecology and Human Rights Afsan Chowdhury Part IV Minorities, Nations, States, and Empires 9. Abuse and Its Aftermath: Kim Saryang's "Into the Light," Joy Kogawa's Obasan, and Yuasa Katsue's "Red Dates" Theodore W. Goossen 10. Chasing the Monster: The Representation of Korean Residents in Japan and Human Rights in Oshima Nagisa's Film Death by Hanging Jooyeon Rhee 11. Human Rights and Human Wrongs: Reading Shama Futehally's Reaching Bombay Central and Noor Zaheer's "A Life in Transit" Arun P. Mukherjee 12. Intersectionality, Hybridity, and the Minority Rights Subject: The Macanese of Macau in Literature, Film, and Law Susan J. Henders Part V Migrations, Transnationalisms, Universalisms 13. Human Rights and the Poetics of "Migritude": South Asian Diasporic Spoken Word Sailaja Krishnamurti 14. Universal Rights and Separate Universes: Local/National Identities, Global Power, and the Modeling and Representing of Human Rights in Indonesian Performance Arts Michael Bodden Part VI Afterword 15. Confucius Institutes, Human Rights, and Global Asia Lily Cho
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