CFP: Fractured Dialogues: The Crisis of Human Rights (12/15/06; collection)
Fractured Dialogues: The Crisis of Human Rights
Editors, Helen Delfeld and V.G. Julie Rajan, Rutgers University
In the past few decades we have seen at least two dialogues on human rights,
which have been fractured even in their emergence. The first is the positive
assertion of rights, especially through legal regimes. The second loose
grouping of activists and scholars are troubled by four issues: the
universalizing nature of rights talk; the Western bias evident in common
discussions of rights; the contradictions masked by the apparent moral
simplicity of rights talk; and the hegemonic nature of the problems that are
discussed. It is this second dialogue to which we seek to give voice.