The Future of Human Rights

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Description
Written by one of India's prominent scholars, this book critically examines the contemporary discourses
on the nature of 'human rights', their histories, and the myths embedded in them. The work highlighting
the significance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, studies the more contemporary issues
such as women's struggle to feminize the understanding and practice of human rights, the
post-modernist critique of the universal idiom of human rights and, most pertinently for the current
world scene, the impact of globalization on the human rights movement. This Oxford India Perennials|
edition will be useful to scholars and students of human rights and law, political science, policymakers,
and activists.
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Contents
1.    An age of Human Rights?
2.    Two Notions of Human Rights: ‘Modern’ and ‘Contemporary’
3.    The Practices of ‘Contemporary’ Human Rights?
4.    Too many or Too Few Human Rights
5.    Critiquing Rights: Politics of Identity and Difference
6.    What is Living and Dead in Relativism?
7.    Human Rights Movements and Human Rights Markets
8.    The Emergence of an Alternate Paradigm of Human Rights
9.    Market Fundamentalisms : Business Ethics at the Altar of Human Rights
Bibliography
Author Index
Theme Index
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Author Details
Upendra Baxi, former vice chancellor of the Universities if South Gujarat and Delhi, is currently professor of Law, University of Warwick.
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