Makau Mutua
Biographic Data
| ID | 199338 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Makau Mutua |
| GIVEN NAMES | Makau |
| FAMILY NAME | Mutua |
| SIGNATURE | MUTUA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Buffalo, State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5668-6051 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Palgrave Handbook of Democracy, Governance and Justice in Africa
Is the Age of Human Rights Over?
The last half of the twentieth century – after World War II – was undoubtedly the golden era of human rights. No less an authority than Louis Henkin, one of the key intellectual fathers of the modern human rights movement, dubbed the period the "Age of Rights. But by the end of the century, much of the enthusiasm that had characterized the surge of the human rights movement since the 1970s had cooled down. Human rights seemed to have failed to de…
Human Rights Standards
I have spent most of my life as a human rights thinker and advocate.My outlook on the human rights project has often been contradictory, but for a reason.I am both sympathetic and critical.This is a paradox to most, although not to me.There are aspects of the human rights corpus-and its movement-that are deeply seductive.But there are others that are completely repulsive.I feel that I am simultaneously both an outsider and an insider.The human ri…
Human Rights Standards
How are human rights norms made, who makes them, and why? In Human Rights Standards, Makau Mutua traces the history of the human rights projects and critically explores how the norms of the human rights movement have been created. Examining key texts and documents published since the inception of the human rights movement at the end of World War II, he crafts a bracing critique of these works from the hitherto underutilized perspective of the Glo…
What Is the Future of Transitional Justice
This piece explores and critiques the project of transitional justice. It has been more than a quarter of a century since transitional justice burst onto the global stage. Over the years it has come to be billed as a panacea for addressing deeply embedded social and political dysfunction after periods of mass repression and violence. Many theorists and policy makers have argued that it is a key bridge to sustainable peace, democracy and human rig…
That the World May Know
Reviewed by: That the World May Know: Bearing Witness to Atrocity Makau Mutua (bio) James Dawes. That the World May Know: Bearing Witness to Atrocity. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2007. 304 pp. ISBN 978-0-6740-2623-0, $19.95. In That the World May Know: Bearing Witness to Atrocity, James Dawes has written one of the most insightful and penetrating works on a class of social actors who devote their lives to doing good. I have never read any book quite l…
Human Rights in Africa
I would like to begin by expressing my deep gratitude and humility to the board of directors of the African Studies Association for inviting me to deliver the 2007 Bashorun M. K. O. Abiola Lecture on the momentous occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the ASA. This singular honor makes me conscious that I follow in the hallowed footsteps of several giants of African politics and studies including Ali A. Mazrui, Gertrude Mongella, and Thandika M…
Human Rights
Human Rights: A Political and Cultural Critique provides a bracing and controversial analysis of the scope of human rights and lays the groundwork for a multicultural and more universal understanding of these rights.
What Is the Future of Transitional Justice
This piece explores and critiques the project of transitional justice. It has been more than a quarter of a century since transitional justice burst onto the global stage. Over the years it has come to be billed as a panacea for addressing deeply embedded social and political dysfunction after periods of mass repression and violence. Many theorists and policy makers have argued that it is a key bridge to sustainable peace, democracy and human rig…
Human Rights in Africa
I would like to begin by expressing my deep gratitude and humility to the board of directors of the African Studies Association for inviting me to deliver the 2007 Bashorun M. K. O. Abiola Lecture on the momentous occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the ASA. This singular honor makes me conscious that I follow in the hallowed footsteps of several giants of African politics and studies including Ali A. Mazrui, Gertrude Mongella, and Thandika M…
Human Rights
Human Rights: A Political and Cultural Critique provides a bracing and controversial analysis of the scope of human rights and lays the groundwork for a multicultural and more universal understanding of these rights.
That the World May Know
Reviewed by: That the World May Know: Bearing Witness to Atrocity Makau Mutua (bio) James Dawes. That the World May Know: Bearing Witness to Atrocity. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2007. 304 pp. ISBN 978-0-6740-2623-0, $19.95. In That the World May Know: Bearing Witness to Atrocity, James Dawes has written one of the most insightful and penetrating works on a class of social actors who devote their lives to doing good. I have never read any book quite l…
Human Rights in Africa
I would like to begin by expressing my deep gratitude and humility to the board of directors of the African Studies Association for inviting me to deliver the 2007 Bashorun M. K. O. Abiola Lecture on the momentous occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the ASA. This singular honor makes me conscious that I follow in the hallowed footsteps of several giants of African politics and studies including Ali A. Mazrui, Gertrude Mongella, and Thandika M…
What Is the Future of Transitional Justice
This piece explores and critiques the project of transitional justice. It has been more than a quarter of a century since transitional justice burst onto the global stage. Over the years it has come to be billed as a panacea for addressing deeply embedded social and political dysfunction after periods of mass repression and violence. Many theorists and policy makers have argued that it is a key bridge to sustainable peace, democracy and human rig…
Human Rights Standards
I have spent most of my life as a human rights thinker and advocate.My outlook on the human rights project has often been contradictory, but for a reason.I am both sympathetic and critical.This is a paradox to most, although not to me.There are aspects of the human rights corpus-and its movement-that are deeply seductive.But there are others that are completely repulsive.I feel that I am simultaneously both an outsider and an insider.The human ri…
Human Rights Standards
How are human rights norms made, who makes them, and why? In Human Rights Standards, Makau Mutua traces the history of the human rights projects and critically explores how the norms of the human rights movement have been created. Examining key texts and documents published since the inception of the human rights movement at the end of World War II, he crafts a bracing critique of these works from the hitherto underutilized perspective of the Glo…
Is the Age of Human Rights Over?
The last half of the twentieth century – after World War II – was undoubtedly the golden era of human rights. No less an authority than Louis Henkin, one of the key intellectual fathers of the modern human rights movement, dubbed the period the "Age of Rights. But by the end of the century, much of the enthusiasm that had characterized the surge of the human rights movement since the 1970s had cooled down. Human rights seemed to have failed to de…
Palgrave Handbook of Democracy, Governance and Justice in Africa
Political science (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Human rights (4 works) · Human Rights and Development (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · International Law and Human Rights (3 works) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (2 works) · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics (2 works) · History (2 works) · Human rights (2 works)