On Ideas about Rights: Thinking and Writing Rights
Editat de Vishnu Varatharajan, Meera Chakravorty, Mbuh Tennu Mbuhen Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 dec 2025
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781032773575
ISBN-10: 103277357X
Pagini: 222
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge India
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 103277357X
Pagini: 222
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge India
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
PostgraduateCuprins
List of contributors vii
Introduction 1
Vishnu Varatharajan, Meera Chakravorty, and Mbuh Tennu Mbuh
PART I
The health of cultural anxieties 11
1 The right to mental health? International law and the privatisation of anxiety 13
Adam Strobeyko
2 African (Igbo) ethics of rights’ discourse: Theory and practice 27
Stanley Uche Anozie
3 Reinventing our humanity and reclaiming our freedom to co-create a new world 41
Iman Ibrahim
PART II
Gendering rights: Many rights, single goal 71
4 The new “other”: The postcolonial African lesbian experience in Chinelo Okparanta’s under the Udala trees 73
Blossom Ngum Fondo
5 Conflict-related sexual violence: Perspectives from the Global Reparations Study 87
Vishnu Varatharajan
6 Rethinking pluralism and rights 100
Ananta Kumar Giri
PART III
Culture, philosophy, and rights 113
7 On ideas about rights in thinking and writing rights: Exploring Earth’s rights 115
Meera Chakravorty
8 A critical Buddhist perspective on truth and rights in an unequal world: The parable of the skilled physician revisited 129
Penny Ehrhardt
9 Rights left out 155
Karl-Julius Reubke
10 Rights, liberalism, multiculturalism 171
Gianluigi Segalerba
11 From Kantian enlightenment to Rortyan rights: A pragmatist perspective 195
Rahul Kumar Maurya
Index 204
Introduction 1
Vishnu Varatharajan, Meera Chakravorty, and Mbuh Tennu Mbuh
PART I
The health of cultural anxieties 11
1 The right to mental health? International law and the privatisation of anxiety 13
Adam Strobeyko
2 African (Igbo) ethics of rights’ discourse: Theory and practice 27
Stanley Uche Anozie
3 Reinventing our humanity and reclaiming our freedom to co-create a new world 41
Iman Ibrahim
PART II
Gendering rights: Many rights, single goal 71
4 The new “other”: The postcolonial African lesbian experience in Chinelo Okparanta’s under the Udala trees 73
Blossom Ngum Fondo
5 Conflict-related sexual violence: Perspectives from the Global Reparations Study 87
Vishnu Varatharajan
6 Rethinking pluralism and rights 100
Ananta Kumar Giri
PART III
Culture, philosophy, and rights 113
7 On ideas about rights in thinking and writing rights: Exploring Earth’s rights 115
Meera Chakravorty
8 A critical Buddhist perspective on truth and rights in an unequal world: The parable of the skilled physician revisited 129
Penny Ehrhardt
9 Rights left out 155
Karl-Julius Reubke
10 Rights, liberalism, multiculturalism 171
Gianluigi Segalerba
11 From Kantian enlightenment to Rortyan rights: A pragmatist perspective 195
Rahul Kumar Maurya
Index 204
Notă biografică
Vishnu Varatharajan is a PhD candidate at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland. His research focuses on identifying the fundamental belief systems that open up the fault lines of political polarisation in parliamentary democracies. He also works as a research officer at Global Survivors Fund, involved in mapping the status of and opportunities for reparations for survivors of conflict-related sexual violence.
Meera Chakravorty, PhD is a doctoral advisor in the Department of Cultural Studies, Jain University, Bangalore. She has been a member of the State Women’s Commission, Bangalore, Karnataka. Her engagement has been with philosophy, women’s studies, cultural studies, consciousness studies, and translation projects. She has translated some award-winning literary works of renowned authors published by Sahitya Akademi (The Academy of Letters, India). She was awarded for her writing on “time” by University of Interdisciplinary studies, Paris, and John Templeton Foundation jointly. She has also been awarded for her literary work by the Tagore Cultural Centre, Bangalore.
Mbuh Tennu Mbuh is Head of the English Department, The University of Bamenda, Cameroon. He is also the President of the Anglophone Cameroon Writers’ Association, ACWA. He is presently working on his fourth poetry collection, The Sins of a Patriot, and at the same time tidying up his third novel, The Inheritors of Alahmbit. He has also published short stories and plays.
Meera Chakravorty, PhD is a doctoral advisor in the Department of Cultural Studies, Jain University, Bangalore. She has been a member of the State Women’s Commission, Bangalore, Karnataka. Her engagement has been with philosophy, women’s studies, cultural studies, consciousness studies, and translation projects. She has translated some award-winning literary works of renowned authors published by Sahitya Akademi (The Academy of Letters, India). She was awarded for her writing on “time” by University of Interdisciplinary studies, Paris, and John Templeton Foundation jointly. She has also been awarded for her literary work by the Tagore Cultural Centre, Bangalore.
Mbuh Tennu Mbuh is Head of the English Department, The University of Bamenda, Cameroon. He is also the President of the Anglophone Cameroon Writers’ Association, ACWA. He is presently working on his fourth poetry collection, The Sins of a Patriot, and at the same time tidying up his third novel, The Inheritors of Alahmbit. He has also published short stories and plays.
Descriere
This book examines the ideas about rights and their evolution in modern political thought.