On Ideas about Rights

Thinking and Writing Rights
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-77357-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

This book examines the ideas about rights and their evolution in modern political thought. The essays in the volume: --present a comprehensive overview on major thinkers and the evolving discourse on rights --interrogate the idea of 'rights' in the post-colonial context and for the 21st century --introduce a Global South perspective in the rights discourse.

The volume will be of great interest to scholars, students and researchers of politics, especially political theory, and international law.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mbuh, Mbuh Tennu

Varatharajan, Vishnu

Chakravorty, Meera

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Vishnu Varatharajan, Meera Chakravorty, Mbuh Tennu Mbuh

Part I - The Health of Cultural Anxieties

1. The Right to Mental Health? International Law and the Privatization of Anxiety

Adam Strobeyko

2. African (Igbo) Ethics of Rights’ Discourse: Theory and Practice

Stanley Uche Anozie

3. Reinventing our Humanity and Reclaiming our Freedom to Co-create a New World

Iman Ibrahim

Part II - Gendering rights: Many Rights, Single Goal

4. The New ‘Other’: The Postcolonial African Lesbian Experience in Chinelo Okparanta’s Under the Udala Trees

Blossom N. Fondo

5. Conflict-related Sexual Violence: Perspectives from the Global Reparations Study

Vishnu Varatharajan

6. Rethinking Pluralism and Rights

Ananta Kumar Giri

Part III - Culture, Philosophy and Rights

7. On Ideas About Rights in Thinking and Writing Rights: Exploring Earth’s Rights

Meera Chakravorty

8. A critical Buddhist perspective on truth and rights in an unequal world: the Parable of the Skilled Physician revisited

Penny Ehrhardt

9. Rights Left Out

Karl-Julius Reubke

10. Rights, liberalism, multiculturalism

Gianluigi Segalerba

11. From Kantian Enlightenment to Rortyan Rights: A Pragmatist Perspective

Rahul Kumar Maurya

Über Autor(innen)

Vishnu Varatharajan is a PhD Candidate at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland. His research focuses on identifying the fundamental belief systems that open up the faultlines of political polarization in parliamentary democracies. He also works as a Research Officer at Global Survivors Fund, involved in mapping the status of and opportunities for reparations for survivors of conflict-related sexual violence.

Meera Chakravorty, PhD. is a Doctoral Advisor in the Department of Cultural Studies, Jain University, Bangalore. She has been a member of the State Women’s Commission, Bangalore, Karnataka. Her engagement has been with Philosophy, Women’s Studies, Cultural Studies, Consciousness Studies and Translation projects. She has translated some award-winning literary works of renowned authors published by Sahitya Akademi (The Academy of Letters, India). She was awarded for her writing on ‘Time’ by University of Interdisciplinary studies, Paris, and John Templeton Foundation jointly. She has also been awarded for her literary work by the Tagore Cultural Centre, Bangalore.

Mbuh Tennu Mbuh is Head of the English Department, The University of Bamenda—Cameroon. He is also the President of the Anglophone Cameroon Writers’ Association, ACWA. He is presently working on his fourth poetry collection, The Sins of a Patriot, and at the same time tidying up his third novel, The Inheritors of Alahmbit. He has also published short stories and plays.