Decolonization and the Evolution of International Human Rights (review)

Goedde, Petra

doi:10.1353/hrq.2011.0018

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“…This argument is premised on the rather contentious assumption that human rights apply primarily to individuals rather than groups or collectives. Self-determination, as a collective entitlement and a core feature of the broader struggle for decolonization, should therefore not be considered part of the human rights movement (Goedde, 2011).…”

Section: Anticolonialismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The argument runs thus: Contemporary human rights may have been ar-ticulated at the United Nations in the 1940s, but it only became truly universal in the 1970s as it captured the global imagination. During this period, human rights activism experienced a dramatic boom, reaching into the very areas where human rights infractions occurred most frequently and violently (Goedde, 2011). This accordingly is what allowed it to evolve into a global movement, becoming the standard discourse for engaging with situation of systematic injustice.…”

Section: The Universalizing Agenda Of the 1970smentioning

confidence: 99%

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Commemorating human rights: Exploring origins, episodes, and historicity in constructing a human rights timeline.

Ibhawoh

2013

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology

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Historicizing and commemorating human rights struggles have become key aspects of contemporary human rights scholarship. Human rights violations represent the most extreme manifestation of political and social violence, and this often produces traumatic collective experiences that societies increasingly find necessary to commemorate and memorialize. Questions of origin and meaning are recurring themes in debates over historicizing and commemorating human rights struggles. Whereas many scholars locate the foundational history of modern human right in natural law and Western liberalism, others argue for a more eclectic understanding of the concept, focusing on divergent notions of rights across globe. This article reviews some of the dominant arguments in debates about the origins and meanings of human rights and explores their implications for constructing a historical human rights timeline for museum projects. It argues that a public history of human rights must engage multiple and contested narratives of human rights struggles and experiences. Such engagement is necessary even if the inherent analytical and interpretative tensions are not fully resolved.

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Section: Anticolonialismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Universalizing Agenda Of the 1970smentioning

confidence: 99%