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Human Rights and the Arts: Perspectives on Global Asia

Human Rights and the Arts: Perspectives on Global Asia

Bodden, Michael
Henders, Susan J.
Cho, Lily

Hardcover

Series: Global Encounters: Studies in Comparative Political Theory

General ArtGeneral Political ScienceSocial Movements

ISBN10: 0739184733
ISBN13: 9780739184738
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Oct 23 2014
Pages: 274
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Human Rights and the Arts: Perspectives on Global Asia approaches human rights issues from the perspective of artists and writers in global Asia. By focusing on the interventions of writers, artists, filmmakers, and dramatists, the book moves toward a new understanding of human rights that shifts the discussion of contexts and subjects away from the binaries of cultural relativism and political sovereignty. From Ai Wei Wei and Michael Ondaatje, to Umar Kayam, Saryang Kim, Lia Zixin, and Noor Zaheer, among others, this volume takes its lead from global Asian artists, powerfully re-orienting thinking about human rights subjects and contexts to include the physical, spiritual, social, ecological, cultural, and the transnational. Looking at a range of work from Tibet, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, China, Bangladesh, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and Macau as well as Asian diasporic communities, this book puts forward an understanding of global Asia that underscores Asia as a global site. It also highlights the continuing importance of nation-states and specific geographical entities, while stressing the ways that the human rights subject breaks out of these boundaries.

Many of these works are included in the companion volume Human Rights and the Arts in Global Asia: An Anthology, also published by Lexington Books.

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