“We are beckoned to see the world through a one-way mirror, as if we are threatened and innocent and the rest of humanity is threatening, or wretched, or expendable. Our memory is struggling to rescue the truth that human rights were not handed down as privileges from a parliament, or a boardroom, or an institution, but that peace is only possible with justice and with information that gives us the power to act justly.”
John Pilger

Sunday, November 17, 2013

A Classic on Human Rights Literature: Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights By Carol C. Gould

Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights

By Carol C. Gould

Cambridge University Press - 2004


Carol Gould addresses the fundamental issue of democratizing globalization, or finding ways to open transnational institutions and communities to democratic participation by those widely affected by their decisions. Gould develops a framework for expanding participation in cross-border decisions, arguing for a broader understanding of human rights. In addition, she introduces a new role for the ideas of care and solidarity at a distance. Her accessible text will be a major new contribution to political philosophy.


Introduction: between the personal and the global
Part I. Theoretical Considerations:
1. Hard questions in democratic theory: when justice and democracy conflict
2. Two concepts of universality and the problem of cultural relativism
Part II. Democracy and Rights, Personalized and Pluralized:
3. Embodied politics
4. Racism and democracy
5. Cultural identity, group rights, and social ontology
6. Conceptualizing women's human rights
Part III. Globalizing Democracy in a Human Rights Framework:
7. Evaluating the claims for a global democracy
8. Are democracy and human rights compatible in the context of globalization?
9. The global democratic deficit and economic human rights
Part IV. Current Applications:
10. Democratic management and the stakeholder idea
11. Democratic networks: technological and political
12. Terrorism, empathy, and democracy

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