TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sarat,Austin
AU  - Kearns,Thomas R.
TI  - Human rights : concepts, contests, contingencies: concepts, contests, contingencies 
T2  - The Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought
SN  - 047208903X
AV  - JC571 .H76935 
U1  - 323 21
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Ann Arbor
PB  - University of Michigan Press
KW  - Human rights
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - Droits de l'homme (Droit international)
KW  - Droits de l'homme
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The unsettled status of human rights : an introduction / Austin Sarat and Thomas R. Kearns -- Two concepts of self-determination / Iris Marion Young -- Cultural choice and the revision of freedom / Homi K. Bhabha -- Durkheim revisited : human rights as the moral discourse for the postcolonial, post-Cold War world / Jane F. Collier -- The legal protection of human rights in Africa : how to do more with less / Abdullahi A. An-Na'im
N2  - "Human Rights: Concepts, Contests, Contingencies brings together essays that attend to both the allure and criticism of human rights. They examine contestation and contingency in today's human rights politics and help us rethink some of the basic concepts of human rights." "In exploring a crucial and timely topic, this additional volume in the Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought will enlighten the reader to the social and intellectual currents surrounding human rights."--Jacket
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/umich051/00010837.html
ER  -