Commissioning and Contesting Post-Apartheid's Human Rights
Author | : Ulrike Kistner |
Publisher | : LIT Verlag Münster |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2003 |
ISBN-10 | : 382586202X |
ISBN-13 | : 9783825862022 |
Rating | : 4/5 (022 Downloads) |
Download or read book Commissioning and Contesting Post-Apartheid's Human Rights written by Ulrike Kistner and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2003 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays compiled in this book take issue with some of the directions of human rights politics in the immediate post-apartheid period. They look at the relationship between different sets of rights within the political contestations in South Africa. To the terms of social struggles for rights and justice, this book brings perspectives from narrative, psychoanalysis, political philosophy, and medical history; and from the history of national liberation struggles, nationalism and citizenship.