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A Good Life: Human rights and encounters with modernity

A Good Life: Human rights and encounters with modernity

Paperback

AnthropologySocial Movements

ISBN10: 1922144665
ISBN13: 9781922144669
Publisher: Anu Press
Published: May 1 2013
Pages: 316
Weight: 1.59
Height: 0.86 Width: 6.93 Depth: 9.84
Language: English
This book is a story. It's a story about ordinary people in very different parts of the world dealing with rapid change in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It's about times of turbulent and violent social upheaval and rupture with the past. It's about modern times. It's also about being human; what it is to be human in a modernising and globalising world; how, in responding to the circumstances of their times, different groups define, redefine, and attempt to put into practice their understandings of the good and of what constitutes a good life. And it's about how human rights have come to be not abstract universal principles but a practical source of consciousness and practice for real people.

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