Book chapter
Peace building education: enabling human rights and social justice through cultural studies pedagogy
Activating human rights and peace: theories, practices and contexts, pp.27-44
Ashgate Publishing
2012
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Abstract
Theorizing about the nature of human rights is an endless, compelling and perplexing project. While it is evident that human rights are presently the normative moral framework at hand in the twenty first century, accepted by and large and entrenched in the international community, Amartya Sen has cogently pointed out that ‘philosophers and legal theorists see the rhetoric of human rights as just loose talk…’ (2004:316). In his eloquent essay ‘Elements of a Theory of Human Rights,’ Sen (2004) carefully investigates the complex tensions that exist between human rights activist practice and the scepticism of legal and political theorists. His approach to developing a theory of human rights explicitly involves understanding the preoccupations of human rights activists and their practice as well as the importance of gaining ‘conceptual clarity’ about the concept and reach of human rights itself. ‘There is, I must conclude, no great deficit in the balance of trade between theory and practice’ (Sen 2004:356).
Details
- Title
- Peace building education: enabling human rights and social justice through cultural studies pedagogy
- Creators
- Baden Offord (Author) - Southern Cross UniversityJohn Ryan (Author) - Southern Cross University
- Contributors
- Bee Chen Goh (Editor of compilation) - Southern Cross UniversityBaden Offord (Editor of compilation) - Southern Cross UniversityRobert Garbutt (Editor of compilation) - Southern Cross University
- Publication Details
- Activating human rights and peace: theories, practices and contexts, pp.27-44
- Publisher
- Ashgate Publishing; Farnham, England
- Identifiers
- 1834; 991012821095402368
- Academic Unit
- School of Arts and Social Sciences
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter