A good life human rights and encounters with modernity
This book is a story. It's a story about ordinary people in very different parts of the world dealing with rapid change in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It's about times of turbulent and violent social upheaval and rupture with the past. It's about modern times.
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Canberra :
Australian National University, E Press
[2013]
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009419966306719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preliminary
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on names and spellings
- List of maps
- Introduction
- Introduction
- 1. Culture, morality, modernity, and the transformation of social imaginaries
- Part I. Tradition and transformation in in a non-colonised state: Thailand
- 2. Continuities and crisis
- 3. Dictatorship and democracy: Competing social imaginaries
- Part II. Tradition and transformation in a non-colonised state: Spain
- 4. Old orders and new: The nuns as historical actors
- 5. 'Quiero ser protagonista de mi vida': 'I want to be the main actor in my own life'
- Part III. Colonised people and the nation-state: Aboriginal Australia
- 6. Ordinary people enduring extraordinary things
- 7. A winnin' battle
- Part IV. Modernity and human rights
- 8. Durban 2001, the United Nations World Conference against Racism
- 9. Human rights and the promise of a good life
- References
- Index.
