Against Superciliousness
Revisiting the Debate 60 Years after the Adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2360804 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eva Kalny (University of Hannover, Germany,, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 371-395 |
| Publication date | 2009-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critique of Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-275X • E-ISSN: 1460-3721 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0308275x09336701 |
| OpenAlex | W1969136564 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 27 |
■ This text will analyze the commonly accepted philosophical foundation of human rights, the international system of protection of human rights and selected perspectives of activists. It argues that dominant European, North American and Australian discourses of human rights do not describe human rights as such but only constitute specific expressions of human rights, and attempts to outline the characteristics of these discourses. It concludes that the limitations of a concept of human rights based on the exclusive reference to the state, as well as on Eurocentrism and processes of othering, can only be overcome through intercultural polylogues based on respect and equality. Rather than focusing on the concept of rights and their development, this text focuses on the concepts of humans and human dignity
Dignity · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Eurocentrism · Foundation (evidence · Fundamental rights · Human rights · Law and economics · Political science · Realisation · Sociology · State (computer science · Human Rights and Development · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Religious Education and Schools
Occidentalism
Fieldwork Under Fire
Rethinking Multiculturalism
Activists beyond Borders
Development as Freedom
Culture and Rights
Rethinking Human Rights for the New Millennium
Domestic violence against women
International Human Rights
World War Two and the Universal Declaration
Reclaiming and rebuilding the history of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Human rights, culture and context
Rethinking Indigenous Politics in the Era of the “Indio Permitido”
Dis/locating Cultures/Identities, Traditions, and Third World Feminism
Dislocating Cultures
Feminism versus Multiculturalism
Droit
Culture and Rights after Culture and Rights
At the Crossroads of Human Rights and Anthropology
Universal Human Rights and the Problem of Unbounded Cultural Meanings
Toward a Critical Anthropology of Human Rights
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2019 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |