Beyond Rights Talk and Culture Talk : Comparative Essays on the Politics of Rights and Culture,9780312234980

Beyond Rights Talk and Culture Talk : Comparative Essays on the Politics of Rights and Culture

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ISBN13: 9780312234980
ISBN10: 0312234988
Format: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 2000-09-16
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

These essays bring together comparative material from experiences as diverse as Tanzania, Nigerian, India, South Africa, and the US. They have the merit of illuminating vital tensions in a period of transition and contention: on the one hand, between individual freedom and culture freedom, and on the other between freedom and justice. By placing each in this worldly context, they analyze the politics of culture talk and race talk.

Author Biography

Mahmood Mamdani currently holds a professorship at Columbia University. He is the author of several books, including the award-winning Citizen and Subject.

Table of Contents

List of contributors
vi
Introduction 1(14)
Mahmood Mamdani
`Culture' and human rights: orientalising, occidentalising and authenticity
15(22)
Martin Chanock
Contradictory perspectives on rights and justice in the context of land tenure reform in Tanzania
37(24)
Issa G Shivji
Were the critics right about rights? Reassessing the American debate about rights in the post-reform era
61(14)
Kimberle Crenshaw
State, community and the debate on the uniform civil code in India
75(21)
Nivedita Menon
Religious revivalism, human rights activism and the struggle for women's rights in Nigeria
96(25)
Hussaina J Abdullah
Tensions in legal and religious values in the 1996 South African Constitution
121(15)
Ebrahim Moosa
The African customary law of marriage and the rights conundrum
136(13)
Thandabantu Nhlapo
Notes 149(9)
References 158(8)
Index 166

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