“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

Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Imperialism and Human Rights: Colonial Discourses of Rights and Liberties in African History Bonny Ibhawoh

SUNY series in Human Rights - 2008

The end of the Second World War marked the dawn of a new age  of  rights.  Since  the  adoption  of  the  United  Nations’ Universal  Declaration  of  Human  Rights  (UDHR)  soon after the war in 1948, the subject of rights has become a theme of great  popular  and  academic  interest.  Rights  have  become  the dominant language for public good around the globe 1 as well as the  language  of  choice  for  making  and  contesting  entitlement claims. The language of rights has attained such importance that today it underlies almost every facet of public and private dis- course, from claims within the family unit to national and global political debates. Indeed, the past five decades have spawned a global “rights revolution”—a revolution of norms and values that has redefined our understanding of ethics and justice.

TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1. The Subject of Rights and the Rights of Subjects  2. Right, Liberties, and the Imperial World Order  3. Stronger than the Maxim Gun: Law, Rights, and Justice  4. Confronting State Trusteeship: Land Rights Discourses  5. Negotiating Inclusion: Social Rights Discourses  6. Citizens of the World’s Republic: Political and Civil Rights Discourses  7. The Paradox of Rights Talk

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