Changing Ethos of Human Rights

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

AvHoda Mahmoudi,Alison Brysk,Kate Seaman

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Utilizing the ethos of human rights, this insightful book captures the development of the moral imagination of these rights through history, culture, politics, and society. Moving beyond the focus on legal protections, it draws attention to the foundation and understanding of rights from theoretical, philosophical, political, psychological, and spiritual perspectives.The book surveys the changing ethos of human rights in the modern world and traces its recent histories and process of change, delineating the ethical, moral, and intellectual shifts in the field. Chapters incorporate and contribute to the debates around the ethics of care, considering some of the more challenging philosophical and practical questions. It highlights how human rights thinkers have sought to translate the ideals that are embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights into action and practice.Interdisciplinary in nature, this book will be critical reading for scholars and students of human rights, international relations, and philosophy. Its focus on potential answers, approaches, and practices to further the cause of human rights will also be useful for activists, NGOs, and policy makers in these fields.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2021-05-25
Mått138 x 216 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
FörlagEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781839108426

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Contents:Introduction to The Changing Ethos of Human Rights 1Hoda Mahmoudi1 Values and human rights: implications of anemerging discourse on virtue ethics 14Michael L. Penn2 Dignity and treating others merely as means 35Samuel Kerstein3 Making rights rhetoric work: constructing care ina post-liberal world 52Alison Brysk4 Race and feminist care ethics: intersectionality as method 66Parvati Raghuram5 Difficult care: examining women’s efforts in theIslamic Republic of Iran 93Hoda Mahmoudi6 Empathy, caring, and the defense of human rightsin a digital world 111Kate Seaman7 Cultural heritage, cultural rights and care ethics 136Matthew S. WeinertIndex 157

‘We live in a moment of overlapping crises: in a radically unequal and dangerously warming world, populism, xenophobia, and closing space for dissent are the background conditions to which the acute calamities of a global pandemic and its dire economic consequences have been added. These intersecting emergencies have left human rights advocates searching for frameworks capable of generating new visions bold enough to tackle the challenges we face. Moving beyond legal foundations, The Changing Ethos of Human Rights, edited by Hoda Mahmoudi, Alison Brysk and Kate Seaman, offers perspectives on rights rooted in traditions such as philosophy, spirituality, and feminism. In these spaces, the contributors find an ethos of care that centers the interdependence of all human beings, offering a pathway forward in the midst of peril.’