Human Rights and the Third World

Subrata Sankar Bagchi is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at Bangabasi Evening College, University of Calcutta, India. He is also teaching postgraduate courses of anthropology and human rights in the University of Calcutta, West Bengal State University, and Jadavpur University.Arnab Das is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Calcutta. He also teaches postgraduate courses in human rights, museology, human resource management, anthropology, and rural development in West Bengal, India.

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Human Rights and the Third World: Issues and Discourse, Subrata SankarBagchi and Arnab Das Part 1. Global Human Rights Standards and the Third WorldChapter 1. Universal Claim and Postcolonial Realities: The Deep Unease over Western-centered Human Rights Standards in the Global South, Marie-Luisa FrickChapter 2. Progressive Realization of the Right to Development in India, Clarence J. DiasChapter 3. Development and Environmental Issues vis-à-vis Current Perspectives of Human Rights, Aniruddha Mukhopadhyay and Sayan BhattacharyaChapter 4. Human Rights and Corruption: The Case of Political Corruption and Opposition to Human Rights in Indonesia, Agus WahyudiPart 2. Politics of Human Rights from Third World PerspectivesChapter 5. Human Rights and Indigenous Self-Government: The Taiwanese Experience, Scott Simon and Awi Mona (Chih-Wei Tsai)Chapter 6. Colonial Continuities, Neoliberal-Hegemony and Adivasi (Original Dweller) Space: Human Rights as Paradox and Equivocation in Contexts of Dispossession in India, Dip KapoorChapter 7. Hindutva Politics—Impact on Human Rights, Ram PuniyaniPart 3. Rights of the Marginalized Chpater 8. Human Rights Violations in India: Exploring the Societal Roots of Marginality, Debi ChatterjeeChapter 9. Media, Cultural Rights and the Third World, Pranta Pratik PatnaikChapter 10. The Fault Lines in Soviet-Style Accommodation of Minority Rights in Ethiopia, Semahagn GashuChapter 11. Human Rights and the Third World Other, Subrata Sankar BagchiPart 4. Rights for Children and GendersChapter 12. Culture and Issues of Rights to the Eyes of the Indians with ‘Other’ Self-Identities of Sexuality and Gender, Arnab Das and Pawan DhallChapter 13. Roots and Shoots of Female Feticide in Pockets of India—Lending Voice to the Voiceless, Tushar Kanti SahaPart 5. Rights of the Disabled and Health Chapter 14. The Rights of People Living with Disability in the Third World Context: The Zimbabwean Pentecostal Concept of ‘Curses and Blessings’ in the Light of Disability, Francis MachinguraChapter 15. The Indian Disability Rights Paradigm: The Reality versus Rhetoric, Anuradha Saibaba RajeshChapter 16. ‘People’s Health in People’s Hand’: Story of a Voluntary Organization in Rural West Bengal, Satyabrata ChakrbortyPart 6. Expanding Frontiers of Human RightsChapter 17. Human Rights and Information Society: Problematizing India, Dipankar SinhaChapter 18. Biotechnology and Human Rights, Subhasis Mukhopadhyay IndexNotes on Contributors