Globalisation, human rights and labour law in Pacific Asia

This pathbreaking book is the first substantive contribution to a sociology of human rights and takes up the question of whether so-called Asian values are compatible with human rights discourse. Using a sociological and poststructuralist approach to the concept of rights, and incorporating transnat...

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Main Author: Woodiwiss, Anthony
Format: Book
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Published: Cambridge, U.K.,New York, N.Y. Cambridge University Press 1998
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Institutions: Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ
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Summary:This pathbreaking book is the first substantive contribution to a sociology of human rights and takes up the question of whether so-called Asian values are compatible with human rights discourse. Using a sociological and poststructuralist approach to the concept of rights, and incorporating transnationality into sociological theory, Anthony Woodiwiss demonstrates how the global human rights regime can accommodate Asian patriarchialism, while Pacific Asia is itself adapting by means of what he calls "enforceable benevolence