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Beyond rights talk and culture talk : Comprative essays on the politics of rights and culture

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Publication details: South Africa David Philip Publishers 2000Description: 170p viISBN:
  • 9780864864291
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 342.085000 MAM
Contents:
Contents 'Culture' and human rights : orientalising, occidentalising and authenticity / Marin Chanock; Contradictory perspectives on rights and justice in the context of land tenure reform in Tanzania / Issa G. Shivji; Were the critics right about rights? Reassessing the American debate about rights in the post-reform era / Kimberle Crenshaw; State, community and the debate on the uniform civil code in India / Nivedita Menon; Religious revivalism, human rights activism and the struggle for women's rights in Nigeria / Hussaina J. Abdullah; Tensions in legal and religious values in the 1996 South African Constitution / Ebrahim Moosa; The African customary law of marriage and the rights conundrum / Thandabantu Nhlapo
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Contents
'Culture' and human rights : orientalising, occidentalising and authenticity / Marin Chanock;
Contradictory perspectives on rights and justice in the context of land tenure reform in Tanzania / Issa G. Shivji;
Were the critics right about rights? Reassessing the American debate about rights in the post-reform era / Kimberle Crenshaw;
State, community and the debate on the uniform civil code in India / Nivedita Menon;
Religious revivalism, human rights activism and the struggle for women's rights in Nigeria / Hussaina J. Abdullah;
Tensions in legal and religious values in the 1996 South African Constitution / Ebrahim Moosa;
The African customary law of marriage and the rights conundrum / Thandabantu Nhlapo