Human Rights in Translation (eBook, ePUB)

Intercultural Pathways
Redaktion: Rozbicki, Michal Jan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume reflects on what happens when the idea and practice of universal human rights cross the cultural borders between different communities of knowledge. Although such rights are usually presumed to be founded on certain globally shared beliefs, the norms and values of many cultures are often incommensurable with these "universal" principles, and hence the need to translate and "vernacularize" them. Any law that would successfully institutionalize them must frame human rights in a way that defers to the historically constituted cultural capital of the society in which it is to function. The essays in this book seek to illuminate different cognitive contexts that produce different meanings of rights, identify spaces of intercultural crossings where differences can coexist, and offer usable narratives and metaphors that could help mediate between distinct cultures. They show that the path forward does not lead through a unified theory of human rights that can be applied globally, nor through mere repackaging of rights in a more understandable language. What is needed is a deep understanding of the process of intercultural dialogue, the cultural "grammar" involved in relationships of difference.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498581424
• Artikelnr.: 56797840

Autorenporträt

Michal Jan Rozbicki is professor of history at Saint Louis University.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Conceptual Frameworks Chapter 1: Human Rights and the Grammar of
Interculturality, Michal Jan Rozbicki Chapter 2: Human Rights against Human
Rights: Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Interpretative
Discrepancies, and Intercultural Transpositions, Mario Ricca Part II:
Rights and Religion Chapter 3: Transgender Rights in Pakistan?: Global,
Colonial, and Islamic Perspectives, Jeffrey A. Redding Chapter 4: The
Off-Centered Hub of Secularism: Religion Inside Human Rights Projections
and Quotidian Life, Melisa Vazquez Chapter 5: Migration' as a Metaphor for
Religious Conversion: a Reinterpretation of Freedom of Conscience and
Belief in Colonial India and Pakistan, Shazia Ahmad Part III: Rights and
Migration Chapter 6: Protestant Work Ethic Revisited: The Ephemeral Nature
of Commitment to Human Rights, Hisako Matsuo and Rachel Santon Chapter 7:
Politics, Religion and Debt: Translating Lives into Normative Frameworks
for Asylum Seekers in Italy, Tommaso Sbriccoli Chapter 8: The Role of Human
Rights Frameworks in Refugee Host State Integration, Rachel Santon Part IV:
Rights and Cultural Difference Chapter 9: Defending Liberty from Tyranny in
Dostoevsky's Siberia: The Impact of Captivity on an Intercultural Consensus
Regarding Human Rights, Elizabeth Blake Chapter 10: The ASEAN Human Rights
Declaration as a Case of Human Rights Translation, Marcella Ferri Chapter
11: The Color Curtain: Richard Wright on Race, Rights and Western Values,
Anders Walker