Roland Burke
Biographic Data
| ID | 4228677 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roland Burke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roland |
| FAMILY NAME | Burke |
| SIGNATURE | BURKE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9571-5767 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Real Thinking’
This analysis investigates the place of emotion within the United States human rights diplomacy, arguing that a persistent and self-conscious aversion to ‘emotionalism’ shaped American engagement with human rights and humanitarian questions across the 1950s and early 1960s. For an extended period, particularly within the United Nations, an insistent emphasis on the rituals of ‘reason’ was a significant impediment to the effective pursuit of Ameri…
Despairing at ‘A World Made New’? South Africa Encounters the Post-war Human Rights Idea
This article surveys the efforts of the South African state to respond to the reconfigured world that emerged after 1945. Focussed on those years around the adoption of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), it argues that South African governments and officials were well attuned to the rising threat of human rights. Drawing on South African archives, it demonstrates that representatives of late United Party and early apartheid er…
Christopher N.J. Roberts, The Contentious History of the International Bill of Human Rights
Internationalisms
Disseminating discord and discovering the world
This article seeks to recover lessons of the global seminar series attached to the United Nations Advisory Services in Human Rights initiative. First proposed by the United States in 1953, the seminars flourished across the 1960s. They endeavoured to repartition human rights promotion into technical assistance, seeking a way around political conflict by recourse to experts, technocrats and specialist knowledge. Their origin represented a contradi…
Universal Rights, Systemic Violations, and Cultural Relativism in Morocco
Osire Glacier’s Universal Rights, Systemic Violations, and Cultural Relativism in Morocco is an important contribution to the history of human rights, and particularly, to the literature on rights
Premature Memorials to the United Nations Human Rights Program
This article examines the United Nations’ international commemoration program for the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). It argues that the deficiencies of the UN’s promotional effort were mirrored in its memorialization strategy, the most visible and sustained example of which was a vast campaign of stamp issues. In their abstract iconography, these stamps tended to circulate internationally without substantial interaction with n…
Human Rights Day after the ‘breakthrough’
This article examines the impact of the late 1970s ‘breakthrough’ in human rights, as it was registered within the United Nations. It analyses the debates on human rights at the thirtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in December 1978, and those a decade later. These two moments, among the few that invited explicit reflection from states on the meaning of human rights, and of their universality, reveal that the effects…
Flat affect? Revisiting emotion in the historiography of human rights
Across the preceding 15 years, the study of the post-1945 human rights project has emerged as one of most rapidly developing fields of transnational and international history. This article surveys the current state of the art of emotionalist historiography in the sphere of human rights and humanitarianism. It identifies the value of histories of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century social movements, which have successfully begun to incorporate emot…
How Time Flies’
Recent histories of human rights have identified the 1970s as the most decisive epoch in the birth of the modern rights era. These works have tended toward a parenthetic dismissal of the period 1948–70 as years of interregnum, of marginal impact to the ‘breakthrough’ moment which followed. This article argues for a more complex periodisation, and reclaims the importance of the 1960s. Far from an undifferentiated abyss, the two decades between the…
Human Rights
This chapter analyzes the status and conception of human rights during the Cold War. It suggests that attempts to define, codify, and protect human rights during the Cold War consisted of a series of discontinuities, intersections, and appropriations in which the area of contestation was the scope and content of the term itself. The chapter also discusses how the Cold War influenced different human rights projects, and explains how the eagerness …
The human rights revolution
Challenging the Universal Declaration
This paper examines opposition to the vision for human rights set out in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Its focus is the 1966 seminar on human rights in the developing world, held in Dakar, Senegal. Alongside the expected expressions of support for the Universal Declaration, Dakar also hosted a striking level of hostility toward the rights it contained, challenging the very foundations of universality. The case of the seminar rev…
Decolonization and the Evolution of International Human Rights
This book challenges traditional accounts of the Third World's contribution to international human rights. It demonstrates that diplomats from Third World countries helped both to radicalize the UN human rights agenda in the heyday of decolonization and to undermine that agenda by advancing cultural relativism as an excuse for abuses in the 1970s.
Decolonization and the evolution of international human rights
Roland Burke explores the changing impact of decolonization on the UN human rights program. By recovering the contributions of those Asian, African, and Arab voices that joined the global rights debate, Burke demonstrates the central importance of Third World influence across the most pivotal battles in the United Nations, from those that secured the principle of universality, to the passage of the first binding human rights treaties, to the flaw…
Work and family precursors of burnout in teachers
Work and family precursors of burnout in teachers
Flat affect? Revisiting emotion in the historiography of human rights
Across the preceding 15 years, the study of the post-1945 human rights project has emerged as one of most rapidly developing fields of transnational and international history. This article surveys the current state of the art of emotionalist historiography in the sphere of human rights and humanitarianism. It identifies the value of histories of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century social movements, which have successfully begun to incorporate emot…
Work and family precursors of burnout in teachers
Decolonization and the Evolution of International Human Rights
This book challenges traditional accounts of the Third World's contribution to international human rights. It demonstrates that diplomats from Third World countries helped both to radicalize the UN human rights agenda in the heyday of decolonization and to undermine that agenda by advancing cultural relativism as an excuse for abuses in the 1970s.
Decolonization and the evolution of international human rights
Roland Burke explores the changing impact of decolonization on the UN human rights program. By recovering the contributions of those Asian, African, and Arab voices that joined the global rights debate, Burke demonstrates the central importance of Third World influence across the most pivotal battles in the United Nations, from those that secured the principle of universality, to the passage of the first binding human rights treaties, to the flaw…
Challenging the Universal Declaration
This paper examines opposition to the vision for human rights set out in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Its focus is the 1966 seminar on human rights in the developing world, held in Dakar, Senegal. Alongside the expected expressions of support for the Universal Declaration, Dakar also hosted a striking level of hostility toward the rights it contained, challenging the very foundations of universality. The case of the seminar rev…
Human Rights
This chapter analyzes the status and conception of human rights during the Cold War. It suggests that attempts to define, codify, and protect human rights during the Cold War consisted of a series of discontinuities, intersections, and appropriations in which the area of contestation was the scope and content of the term itself. The chapter also discusses how the Cold War influenced different human rights projects, and explains how the eagerness …
The human rights revolution
Human Rights Day after the ‘breakthrough’
This article examines the impact of the late 1970s ‘breakthrough’ in human rights, as it was registered within the United Nations. It analyses the debates on human rights at the thirtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in December 1978, and those a decade later. These two moments, among the few that invited explicit reflection from states on the meaning of human rights, and of their universality, reveal that the effects…
Flat affect? Revisiting emotion in the historiography of human rights
Across the preceding 15 years, the study of the post-1945 human rights project has emerged as one of most rapidly developing fields of transnational and international history. This article surveys the current state of the art of emotionalist historiography in the sphere of human rights and humanitarianism. It identifies the value of histories of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century social movements, which have successfully begun to incorporate emot…
How Time Flies’
Recent histories of human rights have identified the 1970s as the most decisive epoch in the birth of the modern rights era. These works have tended toward a parenthetic dismissal of the period 1948–70 as years of interregnum, of marginal impact to the ‘breakthrough’ moment which followed. This article argues for a more complex periodisation, and reclaims the importance of the 1960s. Far from an undifferentiated abyss, the two decades between the…
Premature Memorials to the United Nations Human Rights Program
This article examines the United Nations’ international commemoration program for the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). It argues that the deficiencies of the UN’s promotional effort were mirrored in its memorialization strategy, the most visible and sustained example of which was a vast campaign of stamp issues. In their abstract iconography, these stamps tended to circulate internationally without substantial interaction with n…
Internationalisms
Disseminating discord and discovering the world
This article seeks to recover lessons of the global seminar series attached to the United Nations Advisory Services in Human Rights initiative. First proposed by the United States in 1953, the seminars flourished across the 1960s. They endeavoured to repartition human rights promotion into technical assistance, seeking a way around political conflict by recourse to experts, technocrats and specialist knowledge. Their origin represented a contradi…
Universal Rights, Systemic Violations, and Cultural Relativism in Morocco
Osire Glacier’s Universal Rights, Systemic Violations, and Cultural Relativism in Morocco is an important contribution to the history of human rights, and particularly, to the literature on rights
Despairing at ‘A World Made New’? South Africa Encounters the Post-war Human Rights Idea
This article surveys the efforts of the South African state to respond to the reconfigured world that emerged after 1945. Focussed on those years around the adoption of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), it argues that South African governments and officials were well attuned to the rising threat of human rights. Drawing on South African archives, it demonstrates that representatives of late United Party and early apartheid er…
Christopher N.J. Roberts, The Contentious History of the International Bill of Human Rights
Real Thinking’
This analysis investigates the place of emotion within the United States human rights diplomacy, arguing that a persistent and self-conscious aversion to ‘emotionalism’ shaped American engagement with human rights and humanitarian questions across the 1950s and early 1960s. For an extended period, particularly within the United Nations, an insistent emphasis on the rituals of ‘reason’ was a significant impediment to the effective pursuit of Ameri…
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