The Concept of Human Rights in Africa (Codesria Book Series) - Softcover

Shivji, Issa G.

 
9781870784023: The Concept of Human Rights in Africa (Codesria Book Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1870784022 ISBN 13: 9781870784023
Publisher: CODESRIA, 1989

Synopsis

Hitherto the human rights debate in Africa has concentrated on the legal and philosophical. The author, Professor of Law at the University of Dar es Salaam, here moves the debate to the social and political planes. He attempts to reconceptualise human rights ideology from the standpoint of the working people in Africa. He defines the approach as avoiding the pitfalls of the liberal perspective as being absolutist in viewing human rights as a central question and the rights struggle as the backbone of democratic struggles. The author maintains that such a study cannot be politically neutral or intellectually uncommitted. Both the critique of dominant discourse and the reconceptualisation are located within the current social science and jurisprudential debates.

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Publisher
CODESRIA
Publication date
1989
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1870784022
ISBN 13 
9781870784023
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
136

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Publisher: CODESRIA Book Series, 1989
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