On Ideas about Rights

Vishnu Varatharajan is a PhD Candidate at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland. His research focuses on identifying the fundamental belief systems that open up the faultlines of political polarization in parliamentary democracies. He also works as a Research Officer at Global Survivors Fund, involved in mapping the status of and opportunities for reparations for survivors of conflict-related sexual violence. Meera Chakravorty, PhD. is a Doctoral Advisor in the Department of Cultural Studies, Jain University, Bangalore. She has been a member of the State Women’s Commission, Bangalore, Karnataka. Her engagement has been with Philosophy, Women’s Studies, Cultural Studies, Consciousness Studies and Translation projects. She has translated some award-winning literary works of renowned authors published by Sahitya Akademi (The Academy of Letters, India). She was awarded for her writing on ‘Time’ by University of Interdisciplinary studies, Paris, and John Templeton Foundation jointly. She has also been awarded for her literary work by the Tagore Cultural Centre, Bangalore. Mbuh Tennu Mbuh is Head of the English Department, The University of Bamenda—Cameroon. He is also the President of the Anglophone Cameroon Writers’ Association, ACWA. He is presently working on his fourth poetry collection, The Sins of a Patriot, and at the same time tidying up his third novel, The Inheritors of Alahmbit. He has also published short stories and plays.

• IntroductionVishnu Varatharajan, Meera Chakravorty, Mbuh Tennu MbuhPart I - The Health of Cultural Anxieties1. The Right to Mental Health? International Law and the Privatization of AnxietyAdam Strobeyko2. African (Igbo) Ethics of Rights’ Discourse: Theory and PracticeStanley Uche Anozie3. Reinventing our Humanity and Reclaiming our Freedom to Co-create a New WorldIman IbrahimPart II - Gendering rights: Many Rights, Single Goal4. The New ‘Other’: The Postcolonial African Lesbian Experience in Chinelo Okparanta’s Under the Udala TreesBlossom N. Fondo5. Conflict-related Sexual Violence: Perspectives from the Global Reparations StudyVishnu Varatharajan6. Rethinking Pluralism and RightsAnanta Kumar GiriPart III - Culture, Philosophy and Rights7. On Ideas About Rights in Thinking and Writing Rights: Exploring Earth’s RightsMeera Chakravorty8. A critical Buddhist perspective on truth and rights in an unequal world: the Parable of the Skilled Physician revisitedPenny Ehrhardt9. Rights Left OutKarl-Julius Reubke10. Rights, liberalism, multiculturalismGianluigi Segalerba11. From Kantian Enlightenment to Rortyan Rights: A Pragmatist PerspectiveRahul Kumar Maurya