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Imperialism and Human Rights
- Colonial Discourses of Rights and Liberties in African History
Engelsk
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
242
ISBN-13:
9780791469231
Indbinding:
Hardback
ISBN-10:
0791469239
Udg. Dato:
16 nov 2006
Størrelse i cm:
Oplagsdato:
16 nov 2006
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Imperialism and Human Rights

- Colonial Discourses of Rights and Liberties in African History
Engelsk
Hardback 2006
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Looks at the language of rights used by diverse interest groups in British-colonized Nigeria.

2007 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title

In this seminal study, Bonny Ibhawoh investigates the links between European imperialism and human rights discourses in African history. Using British-colonized Nigeria as a case study, he examines how diverse interest groups within colonial society deployed the language of rights and liberties to serve varied socioeconomic and political ends. Ibhawoh challenges the linear progressivism that dominates human rights scholarship by arguing that, in the colonial African context, rights discourses were not simple monolithic or progressive narratives. They served both to insulate and legitimize power just as much as they facilitated transformative processes. Drawing extensively on archival material, this book shows how the language of rights, like that of "civilization" and "modernity," became an important part of the discourses deployed to rationalize and legitimize empire.

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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
242
ISBN-13:
9780791469231
Indbinding:
Hardback
ISBN-10:
0791469239
Udg. Dato:
16 nov 2006
Størrelse i cm:
Oplagsdato:
16 nov 2006
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