Negotiating Culture and Human Rights

American scholars from a broad range of disciplines, including law, political science, history, and criminology, gathered at Columbia University in the summer of 1997 for The Asian Values Debate: Human Rights and the Study of Culture as Problems for Area Studies seminar. The 14 papers that emerged cover human rights and the Asian values debate, culturally informed arguments for universal human rights, human rights law and its limits, rights discourse and power relations, and beyond universalism and relativism. Texts of three declarations on human rights are appended. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Nathan, Andrew J.

Bell, Lynda

Constitutional Law

Columbia Univ. Pr.

<p>Negotiating Culture and Human Rights provides a new interdisciplinary approach to issues of cultural values and universal human rights. Central to the discussion is the "Asian values debate," so named because of the culturally relativist ideals embraced by some key Asian governments. By analyzing how cultural difference and human rights operate in theory and practice in such areas as legal equality, women's rights, and ethnicity, the contributors forge a new way of looking at these critical issues. They call their approach "chastened universalism," arguing that respect for others' values need not lead to sterile, relativist views. Ultimately the authors conclude that it is less important to discover pre-existing common values across cultures than to create them through dialogue and debate</p>

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