Human Rights as Social Construction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19948814 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Benjamin Gregg (0000-0001-9510-6147, The University of Texas at Austin, corresponding author), Benjamin Greenwood Gregg |
| Year | 2011 |
| Publication date | 2011-12-12 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Human Rights as Social Construction (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cbo9781139059626 |
| OpenAlex | W4300718908 |
| Open Library | OL24896331M |
| ISBN | 9781139059626 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
Most conceptions of human rights rely on metaphysical or theological assumptions that construe them as possible only as something imposed from outside existing communities. Most people, in other words, presume that human rights come from nature, God, or the United Nations. This book argues that reliance on such putative sources actually undermines human rights. Benjamin Gregg envisions an alternative; he sees human rights as locally developed, freely embraced, and indigenously valid. Human rights, he posits, can be created by the average, ordinary people to whom they are addressed, and that they are valid only if embraced by those to whom they would apply. To view human rights in this manner is to increase the chances and opportunities that more people across the globe will come to embrace them
Environmental ethics · Human rights · Law and economics · Political science · Sociology · Human Rights and Development · Law · Philosophy · History & Theory · Social aspects
Social Workers Putting into Practice the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
It's my home, not a war zone”
Against Self-Isolation as a Human Right of Indigenous Peoples in Latin America
Shifting solutions
The institutionalisation of human rights reconceived
Achieved not given’
Human rights practices and college students’ attitudes towards the death penalty in China
How to Build a Culture of Human Rights in the Era of Populism
Human Rights as Metaphor for Political Community beyond the Nation State
Lectures critiques
Between Forbearance and Audacity
Vitoria’s cosmopolitan potential realized
At the Intersections
Health data justice, epistemological delinking and vernacularisation
Beyond Due Diligence
Engaged Buddhism as Human Rights Ethos
Understanding corruption in the twenty-first century
Rights Consciousness in Malaysia
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |