Ways of Knowing about Human Rights in Asia

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Ways of Knowing about Human Rights in Asia is an innovative multidisciplinary collection featuring cutting-edge research on human rights issues across Asia. Written by scholars deeply versed in the region's languages and cultures, the book explores human rights through diverse disciplinary lenses including history, memory studies, gender and sexuality studies, cultural studies, and translation studies. Topics include linguistic rights, prenatal testing debates, transnational campaigns for redress, sexual rights advocacy, and human rights movements in East and Southeast Asia. Originally published as a special issue of Asian Studies Review, this volume offers a rich, nuanced understanding of human rights in Asia.
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This book is ideal for both general and specialist readers interested in Asian Studies, cultural studies, gender and sexuality studies, legal studies, and history.

Ways of Knowing about Human Rights in Asia is an innovative, multidisciplinary collection, which brings together the latest research on human rights issues in the Asian region, by leading scholars with a deep familiarity with the languages and cultures of the region.

This book was published as a special issue of Asian Studies Review.

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This innovative multidisciplinary collection brings together the latest research on human rights issues in the Asian region, by leading scholars with a deep familiarity with the languages and cultures of the region. The contributors bring a range of disciplinary approaches, or ‘ways of knowing’, to the study of human rights: history, memory studies, gender and sexuality studies, cultural studies, and translation studies.

Issues canvassed in the book include linguistic rights, debates on prenatal testing, transnational campaigns for redress of past wrongs, campaigns for sexual rights, and modes of human rights advocacy in East and Southeast Asia. This book will be of interest to general and specialist readers in the fields of Asian Studies, cultural studies, gender and sexuality studies, legal studies, and history.

Ways of Knowing about Human Rights in Asia was published as a special issue of Asian Studies Review.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781138379572

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 10 September 2018

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Contributors:

Edited by Vera Mackie

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 174.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 220g

Pages: 110

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About the Author

Vera Mackie is Senior Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Wollongong. She is co-editor (with Mark McLelland) of the Routledge Handbook of Sexuality Studies in East Asia (2014).