Vulnerability and Human RightsPenn State Press, 29 oct. 2015 - 160 pagini The mass violence of the twentieth century’s two world wars—followed more recently by decentralized and privatized warfare, manifested in terrorism, ethnic cleansing, and other localized forms of killing—has led to a heightened awareness of human beings’ vulnerability and the precarious nature of the institutions they create to protect themselves from violence and exploitation. This vulnerability, something humans share amid the diversity of cultural beliefs and values that mark their differences, provides solid ground on which to construct a framework of human rights. Bryan Turner undertakes this task here, developing a sociology of rights from a sociology of the human body. His blending of empirical research with normative analysis constitutes an important step forward for the discipline of sociology. Like anthropology, sociology has traditionally eschewed the study of justice as beyond the limits of a discipline that pays homage to cultural relativism and the “value neutrality” of positivistic science. Turner’s expanded approach accordingly involves a truly interdisciplinary dialogue with the literature of economics, law, medicine, philosophy, political science, and religion. |
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... practices and customs that are undeniably cruel. He criticizes human rights activists for adopting cultural ... practice. Second, it is false to create a simple opposition between Western (individualistic) and Asian (collectivist) ...
... practices that decisively set the boundaries of the inside and the outside world. What and whom we are entitled through ritualized practices to enslave, to hunt, or to eat are powerful indicators of the border between the human and the ...
... practices and our habitus. Two processes—embodiment and “enselfment”—express the idea that mind and body are never separated. Who we are is a social process that is always constructed in terms of a particular experience of embodiment ...
... practice and belief, veneration of the Passion was associated with meditation on the Seven Wounds of Christ. These palpable wounds served as evidence of Christ's humanity and suffering. Devotional meditations on Christ's suffering ...
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Cuprins
Cultural Rights and Critical Recognition Theory | |
Reproductive and Sexual Rights | |
Rights of Impairment and Disability | |
Rights of the Body | |
Old and New Xenophobia | |
References | |
Index | |