International Human Rights Decolonisation and Globalisation

Covering a diverse range of topics case studies and theories the author undertakes a critique of the principal assumptions on which the existing international human rights regime has been constructed. She argues that the decolonization of human rights and the creation of a global community that is conducive to the well-being of all humans will require a radical restructuring of our ways of thinking researching and writing. In contributing to this restructuring she brings together feminist and indigenous approaches as well as postmodern and post-colonial scholarship engaging directly with some of the prevailing orthodoxies such as 'universality' 'the individual' 'self-determination' 'cultural relativism' 'globalization' and 'civil society'.