Human Rights in Twentieth-Century Australia (Hardcover)

Language: English

Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2019

110847277X / 9781108472777

Series: Book 18 of 36 - Human Rights in History

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Hardcover. This groundbreaking study understands the 'long history' of human rights in Australia from the moment of their supposed invention in the 1940s to official incorporation into the Australian government bureaucracy in the 1980s. To do so, a wide cast of individuals, institutions and publics from across the political spectrum are surveyed, who translated global ideas into local settings and made meaning of a foreign discourse to suit local concerns and predilections. These individuals created new organisations to spread the message of human rights or found older institutions amenable to their newfound concerns, adopting rights language with a mixture of enthusiasm and opportunism. Governments, on the other hand, engaged with or ignored human rights as its shifting meanings, international currency and domestic reception ebbed and flowed. Finally, individuals understood and (re)translated human rights ideas throughout this period: writing letters, books or poems and sympathising in new, global ways. This groundbreaking study unpicks a tangled web of activists, bureaucrats, writers and politicians who championed, engaged with, critiqued or ignored what are today held to be the unassailable truths of universal human rights. Today's debates about freedom of religion, offshore detention and indigenous recognition have a long human rights history. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Title
Human Rights in Twentieth-Century Australia (Hardcover)
Author
Jon Piccini
Publisher
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Publication year
2019
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new
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
ISBN 10
110847277X
ISBN 13
9781108472777
Series
Book 18 of 36: Human Rights in History

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