Critical Impairments to Globalizing the Western Human Rights Discourse

Nikitah O. Imani, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Nikitah O. Imani. "Critical Impairments to Globalizing the Western Human Rights Discourse" Sociologists Without Borders 3.2 (2008): 270-284.

ABSTRACT
This article focuses on the philosophical implications of Euro-centrism and Eurocentric discourse for the Western human rights narrative. It is argued that there is insufficient theoretical and practical consideration of those implications, particular for advocacy and activity in the so-called “Third World” where such arguments frequently become mere vehicles for the advance of economic and political neocolonialism. In many ways, colonialism with a humanistic, liberal democratic “face”. Finally, a proposition is advanced that if the Western human rights discourse is to be effectively corrected and evolve into a global one, critiques of Euro-centrism from outside the Western discursive world must be taken seriously.

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