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Activism in the Shadows of Universalism: Where Is Human Rights, Then and Now?
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2016.
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Abstract
- Meredith Terretta shows how historical inquiry contributes to an understanding of contemporary human rights as contingent. Using 20th century Africa as a case study, Terretta focuses on transregional activism to demonstrate that rights claims from colonial settings preceded a discursive structure of universal human rights emerging in 1948. Meredith Terretta montre comment l’analyse historique contribue à éclairer le caractère conjoncturel des droits humains contemporains. Étudiant l’Afrique du 20e siècle, Terretta se focalise sur l’activisme transrégional en vue de démontrer que, bien avant l’émergence en 1948 d’un cadre discursif sur l'universalité des droits humains, le cadre colonial était déjà le théâtre de revendications de droits.
- Subjects :
- legal pluralism
self-determination
anticolonialism
United Nations Trust Territories
League of Nations mandate system
human rights
activism
Africa
activist lawyers
transregional advocacy
rights claims
human rights history
international law
historical contingency
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........bc1b616ca9a4e22950170b7c2cef36cd
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.20381/ruor-821