Human Rights in History #: Decolonization, Self-Determination, and the Rise of Global Human Rights Politics

Human Rights in History #: Decolonization, Self-Determination, and the Rise of Global Human Rights Politics
Marco Duranti, A Dirk Moses, Roland Burke
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This volume presents the first global history of human rights politics in the age of decolonization. The conflict between independence movements and colonial powers shaped the global human rights order that emerged after the Second World War. It was also critical to the genesis of contemporary human rights organizations and humanitarian movements. Anti-colonial forces mobilized human rights and other rights language in their campaigns for self-determination. In response, European empires harnessed the new international politics of human rights for their own ends, claiming that their rule, with its promise of 'development,' was the authentic vehicle for realizing them. Ranging from the postwar partitions and the wars of independence to Indigenous rights activism and post-colonial memory, this volume offers new insights into the history and legacies of human rights, self-determination, and empire to the present day.

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Amnesty International and Human Rights Activism in Postwar Britain, 1945-1977
Care of the Witness, The: A Contemporary History of Testimony in Crises
Christianity and Human Rights Reconsidered
Decolonization, Self-Determination, and the Rise of Global Human Rights Politics
Human Rights in Twentieth-Century Australia
Human Rights on Trial: A Genealogy of the Critique of Human Rights
Humanitarianism and Human Rights: A World of Differences?
In the Cause of Humanity: A History of Humanitarian Intervention in the Long Nineteenth Century
International Jewish Humanitarianism in the Age of the Great War
Jewish Internationalism and Human Rights after the Holocaust
Making of International Human Rights, The: The 1960s, Decolonization, and the Reconstruction of Global Values
Nationals Abroad
Night on Earth: A History of International Humanitarianism in the Near East, 1918-1930
Past Can't Heal Us, The: Dangers of Mandating Memory in the Name of Human Rights
Poland's Solidarity Movement and the Global Politics of Human Rights
Problems of Genocide, The: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression
Rene Cassin and Human Rights: From the Great War to the Universal Declaration
Social Rights and the Politics of Obligation in History
World Reimagined: Americans and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century

'Tracing the global debate over human rights from a world dominated by empires to that made up of nation states, this strikingly original collection of essays reveals a rich and unexpectedly innovative history.' Faisal Devji, University of Oxford
'This compelling collection of original essays highlights the transmutation of human rights languages and emancipatory policies as practiced by anti-colonial activists, defenders of new nations, and promoters of colonial and neoliberal policies through the second half of the twentieth century. The book's geographic and thematic focus overcomes a persistent Western bias in the literature and is a must read for our conflicted geopolitical age.' Jean H. Quataert, Distinguished Professor of History, Binghamton University
'This field-defining collection represents a breakthrough in the historiography of human rights, focused firmly on the human rights visions and experiences of the decolonizing world. The authors demonstrate that the emergence of global human rights after 1945 was inextricably entwined with the efforts of anticolonial movements and thinkers to imagine new states and citizens, as well as the determination of the colonial powers to contain them.' Brad Simpson, University of Connecticut
A. Dirk Moses is Professor of Modern History at the University of Sydney. He is Senior Editor of the Journal of Genocide Research. Marco Duranti is Senior Lecturer in Modern European and International History at the University of Sydney. He is the author of The Conservative Human Rights Revolution (2017). Roland Burke is Senior Lecturer in World History at La Trobe University. He is the author of Decolonization and the Evolution of International Human Rights (2010).
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ISBN-13: 9781108479356
Published: 30 Jun 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardback
Pages: 450

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