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This book examines the ideas about rights and their evolution in modern political thought. The essays in the volume present a comprehensive overview on major thinkers and the evolving discourse on rights, interrogate the idea of rights in the postcolonial context and for the twenty-first century, and introduce a Global South perspective in the rights discourse. The volume will be of great interest to scholars, students, and researchers of politics, especially political theory and international law.
Contents
List of contributors vii
Introduction 1
Vishnu Varatharajan, Meera Chakravorty, and Mbuh Tennu Mbuh
PART I
The health of cultural anxieties 11
1 The right to mental health? International law and the privatisation of anxiety 13
Adam Strobeyko
2 African (Igbo) ethics of rights' discourse: Theory and practice 27
Stanley Uche Anozie
3 Reinventing our humanity and reclaiming our freedom to co-create a new world 41
Iman Ibrahim
PART II
Gendering rights: Many rights, single goal 71
4 The new "other": The postcolonial African lesbian experience in Chinelo Okparanta's under the Udala trees 73
Blossom Ngum Fondo
5 Conflict-related sexual violence: Perspectives from the Global Reparations Study 87
Vishnu Varatharajan
6 Rethinking pluralism and rights 100
Ananta Kumar Giri
PART III
Culture, philosophy, and rights 113
7 On ideas about rights in thinking and writing rights: Exploring Earth's rights 115
Meera Chakravorty
8 A critical Buddhist perspective on truth and rights in an unequal world: The parable of the skilled physician revisited 129
Penny Ehrhardt
9 Rights left out 155
Karl-Julius Reubke
10 Rights, liberalism, multiculturalism 171
Gianluigi Segalerba
11 From Kantian enlightenment to Rortyan rights: A pragmatist perspective 195
Rahul Kumar Maurya
Index 204



