| A Human Right to Culture and Identity: The Ambivalence of Group Rights Contributor(s): Mende, Janne (Author) |
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ISBN: 1783486783 ISBN-13: 9781783486786 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $152.46 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Human Rights - Political Science | Colonialism & Post-colonialism - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 342.087 |
| LCCN: 2016020902 |
| Series: Studies in Social and Global Justice |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.1 lbs) 220 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Is it desirable, or even necessary, to have distinct human rights for cultural identities? Do different conceptions of culture and identity, and their potential to frame human rights violations as culturally appropriate, complicate the question? How should a human right to collective identity be outlined? Claims to human rights as applying to a whole (ethnic, religious or cultural) group, instead of the individual, prove to be complex. This book reveals the pitfalls, benefits and demands that surround the debate for and against culture and identity in human rights. It connects a continuous and nuanced theoretical debate with highly topical empirical findings about collective rights for indigenous groups, which for centuries have been suppressed and marginalized and now stand at the forefront of (successfully) demanding a human right to their own culture and distinct identity. This book shows the ambivalences of those demands and discusses solutions so that human rights neither exclude marginalized cultural groups nor reproduce rigid distinctions between seemingly exclusive cultures. |
Contributor Bio(s): Mende, Janne: - Janne Mende is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Kassel. |