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Authors: Christian Lund, European Association of Development Rese
ISBN-13: 9780714649412, ISBN-10: 0714649414
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: March 1999
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Christian Lund

Book Synopsis

This collection of essays hand explores a major undercurrent of the debate on rights, namely the question of universalism and cultural relativism. It also explores how rights are claimed and contested, vindicated and politicized and, in different ways, transform social practice.

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Nine essays explore the question of universalism and cultural relativism of rights, refuse to adopt either stance absolutely, and advocate less extreme positions. They also consider how rights are claimed and contested, vindicated and politicized, and how they transform social practice in different ways. The case studies, most from Africa, focus on the legal dimensions and how people in concrete circumstances engage in political struggles that are framed partly in terms of rights. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

	Development and Rights: Tempering Universalism and Relativism	1
	On Universal Morality and the Morality of Universalism	7
	Universal Rights and the Historical Context	19
	Changing African Land Tenure: Reflections on the Incapacities of the State	33
	Politics and Struggles for Access to Land: 'Grants from Above' and 'Squatters' in Coastal Kenya	50
	Past Wrongs and Gender Rights: Issues and Conflicts in South Africa's Land Reform	70
	Women's Human Rights and African Customary Laws: Between Universalism and Relativism - Individualism and Communitarianism	88
	The Interplay between Collective Rights and Obligations and Individual Rights	105
	Governance as Multilateral Development Bank Policy: The Cases of the African Development Bank and the Asian Development Bank	117
	Index	135