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- Johansson Dahre, Ulf, Docent, 1959-
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Games States Play : A Critique of International Human Rights Law.
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the annual International Conference on Political Science, Sociology and International Relations. - : Global Science & Technology Forum. - 2251-2403. ; , s. 34-43
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- this paper is an attempt to critically assess international human rights law. The aim is to move towards a theoretical understanding of how human rights work in state practice and why its significance in world politics and conflicts is declining and/or even ignored. The paper therefore explores the political domains of the legal structures of human rights, and attempts to deconstruct the boundaries between political and ideological frameworks and the influences on international human rights law and state action. 1 In line with this argument, I will show that the ideal of a World Order based on human rights cannot sustain its proposition, as social and political conflicts, in the end, must be solved by political means. Even if there is a widespread legal rhetoric about international human rights, that rhetoric most of the time relies on contested political principles and relative cultural values.
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- Johansson Dahre, Ulf, Docent, 1959-
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Searching for a middle ground : anthropologists and the debate on the universalism and the cultural relativism of human rights.
- 2017
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Ingår i: International Journal of Human Rights. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1364-2987 .- 1744-053X. ; 21:5, s. 611-628
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the anthropological debate on human rights a new theoretical approach, a search for a middle ground, has been attempted to solve the dilemma of universalism versus cultural relativism. In the human rights discussion in general, and in the anthropological debate in particular, the dichotomy of universalism/relativism is seen as one major obstacle to the implementation. This article takes a critical outlook at this discussion in anthropology, arguing that there is no such middle ground between universalism and cultural relativism, neither in relation to the definition of the rights, nor the implementation. Instead, this article attempts, through an example from Borneo, to point the way to a human rights theory, called relative universalism of human rights. This is a theoretical approach integrating universalism and cultural relativism instead of trying to find some moral space in-between.
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- Johansson Dahre, Ulf, Docent, 1959-
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The International Discourse on Indigenous Peoples : A Compilation of Legal and Political Documents
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Bok (refereegranskat)abstract
- This book is a compilation of original international documents concerning indigenous peoples. The documents cover a period from 1455 to 2016. The documents reflects an international political and legal discourse filled with anxiety, colonialism, racism and atrocities until recent times. The documents also reflects the complicated relationship between indigenous peoples, states, international organizations and missionary projects.
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- Johansson Dahre, Ulf, Docent, 1959-
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The Politics of Human Rights : Indigenous Peoples and the Conflict on Collective Human Rights.
- 2008
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Ingår i: International Journal of Human Rights. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1364-2987 .- 1744-053X. ; 12:1, s. 41-52
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Human rights are not apart, above or outside social, cultural and political relations. The human rights discourse is creating and constituting social relations according to the visions on which the discourse is based. This argument has been illustrated by an empirical study of the political dispute regarding collective cultural rights of Native Hawai'ians. This political dispute shows that the human rights discourse, while implying a level political field, restates and takes conflicts to other arenas. It illustrates the many ways human rights and collective cultural rights are taken up in politics, and how they are viewed as utilities for social emancipation and political strategy. The article shows that recourse to the human rights discourse does not necessarily end political conflict. Human rights become objects for political conflict. The question of Native Hawai'ian cultural rights and sovereignty has been simmering since the US led the overthrow of the Hawai'ian monarchy in 1893 and the annexation of Hawai'i five years later in 1898. During the last decades demands for cultural recognition and sovereignty for Hawai'i have been renewed and taken to the political frontline. This period has also seen a renaissance of Native Hawai'ian culture, language and identity. A common strategy for the different sovereignty groups is to use culture as a political strategy in claiming human rights and political sovereignty.
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- Johansson Dahre, Ulf, Docent, 1959-
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The Significance of Culture in Human Rights : Three dimensions of cultural relativism in the universal human rights discourse.
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the annual International Conference on Political Science, Sociology and International Relations. - : Global Science & Technology Forum. - 2251-2403. ; , s. 94-102
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The question of culture in the international human rights discourse has since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 been relatively marginal, but have recently taken new turns. This article argue that there are several dimensions of cultural relativism in human rights despite its universalistic pretentions. The reason for the cultural relativistic turn in human rights is that nations, cultural groups and legal structures explicitly question the ability' of the universal discourse to address the concerns of nations, individuals, and cultural groups. Finally, it is suggested that these human rights dilemmas may be solved by national and local transformation and application of the universal discourse.
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- Johansson Dahre, Ulf, Docent, 1959-
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There are no such things as universal human rights - on the predicament of indigenous peoples, for example.
- 2010
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Ingår i: International Journal of Human Rights. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1364-2987 .- 1744-053X. ; 14:5, s. 641-657
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- There is a gap between the normative ideas of universal human rights and social practice. This discrepancy in the human rights field is analysed in relation to the contemporary social and political marginalisation of indigenous peoples. The problem is analysed from the theoretical approach known as 'communitarian pragmatism'. Discrimination and oppression of indigenous peoples is still widespread, despite the global democratisation initiatives and the political and legal adoption of human rights principles. Based on several years of fieldwork on indigenous peoples and human rights, this paper argues that there are no such things as 'universal human rights'. The reason why human rights is not an adequate instrument is that the universalism of human rights focuses on a cosmopolitan individual, who is detached from his/her cultural and social context. However, indigenous peoples, like most other persons, live their lives in local social circumstances. The solution to this problem, it is argued, is that human rights have to be locally grounded to be a relevant instrument for social change.
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