Universal Human Rights in a World of Difference

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 11
1 Universal human rights in a world of difference: challenging our thinking......Page 17
Invisibility......Page 25
Universal justification......Page 32
Critical theory and methodology......Page 43
What you see is what you get......Page 47
Conclusion......Page 52
PART I Epistemology, diversity, and disagreement in theory and practice......Page 57
Introduction......Page 59
Human rights as a non-ideal theory......Page 62
Rawlsian methodology and non-ideal theory......Page 65
Methodologies for non-ideal theoretical arguments......Page 73
The politics of knowledge......Page 74
The politics of diversity......Page 76
The politics of dissent......Page 81
Conclusion......Page 83
Introduction......Page 86
Transcendental universalisms......Page 88
Metaphysical transcendental universalism: faith and other metaphysics......Page 89
Secular transcendental universalisms: philosophical and legal arguments......Page 93
The universalism of anti-liberalism and relativism......Page 99
What can we do?......Page 103
Introduction......Page 107
An immanent moral universal and cross-cultural inquiry......Page 108
Methodological considerations......Page 110
Rights as immanent in history......Page 112
The nexus and the olive branch......Page 115
Taking ‘‘others’’ seriously......Page 123
A theoretical methodology......Page 133
Conclusion......Page 139
PART II A methodology for immanent theory......Page 141
Introduction......Page 143
Feminist curb cutting – the epistemology behind the methodology......Page 148
The method for gathering data......Page 158
Insiders, outsiders, multi-sited critics, and multiple critics......Page 160
Reflective opportunity......Page 164
Scholar as critic: promoting inquiry, deliberative opportunity, and institutional change......Page 165
Guiding criteria......Page 166
Skeptical scrutiny......Page 167
Does experienced-based inquiry stop here?......Page 168
Introduction: theoretical analysis with methodology?......Page 170
The method for analyzing data......Page 175
Insiders, outsiders, multi-sited critics, multiple critics, and silent or silenced critics......Page 176
Deliberative inquiry......Page 184
Guiding criteria......Page 191
Skeptical scrutiny......Page 204
Conclusion......Page 206
PART III Immanent universal human rights: theory and practice......Page 211
Preface......Page 213
Introduction......Page 214
What’s the problem?......Page 215
Other approaches......Page 216
Immanent approach......Page 218
Roles and responsibilities......Page 224
Content, scope, and responsibilities......Page 226
Rights extended to all: the interrelatedness of people......Page 228
Indivisibility and structures: useful obstacles to delimiting the content of human rights......Page 232
Non-ideal theory at work: responsibilities without boundaries......Page 239
Transcendental universalisms (God or principles) in a non-ideal world?......Page 240
Immanent responsibility in a non-ideal world......Page 244
Conclusion......Page 246
Preface......Page 248
Introduction......Page 249
Working through the hard questions: obligation and tools......Page 253
Working through hard questions: illustration......Page 262
Competing rights......Page 264
Sexuality......Page 267
The big issue......Page 275
Trust and thinking through the terrain of difficulty......Page 282
Conclusion......Page 285
Introduction......Page 287
Are immanent human rights universal?......Page 290
Strategies of local activism: working within in order to transform......Page 294
Strategies of transnational women’s human rights feminism......Page 299
Framing a myriad of concerns as ‘‘rights’’ issues......Page 301
Bringing local and particular issues to the global stage......Page 304
Rewriting international universal human rights such that violations of women’s human rights are as visible as violations of men’s......Page 307
Channeling resources......Page 309
Transfer of leadership to the global South......Page 313
Bringing those working on similar issues in different places into dialogue with one another......Page 314
Bringing those working on separate issues into dialogue with one another......Page 316
Conclusion: guiding questions for activists’ work......Page 317
Context assessment......Page 318
Dialogue......Page 319
Dialogue partners......Page 321
I......Page 323
III......Page 324
Bibliography......Page 332
Interviews......Page 376
Index......Page 380