This book offers a critical reassessment of the 'Asian values' debate, which dominated the human rights discourse in the late 1990s, and a reappraisal of the human rights situation in Asia since then. The chapters in this book contextualize the debate and examine in what ways the issues raised then continue totrouble Asian societies. ÍNDICE: Introduction; D. Kingsbury and L. Avonius - Universalism and Exceptionalism in 'Asia'; D. Kingsbury - Asia Values? Why Not, But How?; J. Chen - Human Rights from the Left: The Early Chinese Democracy Movement and Reconciling Human Rights with Marxism; L. Paltemaa Chinese Values and Human Rights; A. Kent - From Marsinah to Munir: Grounding Human Rights in Indonesia; L. Avonius- From Asian Values to Singapore Exceptionalism; L. Wai-Teng Leong - The Notions of Human Rights in Thai Context: Rhetoric or Substance on Asian Values; N.Thabchumpon - Asian Values and Responses to Human Rights in Indonesia; K. Asplund - Asian Values, Gender and Culture-Specific Development; P. Koskinen - Colonial Modernity and the Nation-State: Debates in Japan in the Post-Cold War Years; M. Iwatake - Walking the Line between b War on Terrorb and the Defence of Human Rights; R. Toivanen -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-60639-5
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 264
- Fecha Publicación: 28/11/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés