Discrimination and Toleration

New Perspectives
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-90-411-1711-3
Verlag: Wolters Kluwer

Buch, Englisch, Band 68, 320 Seiten, GB, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Reihe: International Studies in Human Rights

Discrimination on the basis of race, gender or other ascribed group affiliations or individual identities is an all too well-known phenomenon. International instruments are invoked and refined to alter this situation, but often to little avail.

Toleration is often advocated as a remedy for discriminatory practices. In contrast to tolerance, which is seen as an attitude, toleration implies an active engaging of difference. In this volume, several authors address the inherent complexities of the notion itself, not least the implication of asymmetry between the tolerant and the tolerated.

A central theme throughout the volume is the relative force of law and other areas of public concern in addressing the issues of both discrimination and toleration. From a wide range of legal, literary, anthropological, and philosophical perspectives, the authors also show how the role of the intellectual is vital in reshaping the discourse and in redirecting practices that may affirm the equal worth of all humans.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hastrup, Kirsten

Ulrich, George

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. 1. The Responsibility of Intellectuals; K. Hastrup. I: Spaces of Toleration. Introduction; K. Hastrup. 2. Offence: Literature in the Public Sphere; P. Madsen. 3. The Arrogation of Being by the Blind-Spot of Religion; E.V. Daniel. 4. From Temporary Protection to Permanent Residence: Bosnian Refugees in Scandinavia; B. Berg. 5. Toleration: Making Room for Difference; K. Hastrup. II: The Persistence of Race. Introduction; G. Ulrich. 6. Subverting the Cultural Logics of Marked and Unmarked Racisms in the Global Era; F.V. Harrison. After the Excess: Race, Racism and Reconciliation in Contemporary South Africa; Th.B. Hansen. 8. An Examination of Caste Discrimination in India; W.J.B. Fernando. 9. The Experience of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination; Th. van Boven. 10. The Parakeets of Human Rights Standing; M. Kj\sgmaelig;rum. III: The Frontiers of Gender. Introduction; N. Rasmussen. 11. Gender and Sexuality: Difference, Rights and Toleration; S. Corrêa. 12. Sexual Orientation and International Law: A Study in the Manufacture of Cross-Cultural `Sensitivity'; E. Heinze. 13. Compliance with Reproductive Rights; R.J. Cook. 14. Sexual Violation and the Making of the Gendered Subject; V. Das. Epilogue. 15. Toleration Between Romanticism and Law; G. Ulrich. List of Contributors. Index.