Decolonizing the “Universal” Human Rights Regime: Questioning American Exceptionalism and Orientalism
This article aims to decolonize the discourse of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights through the lens of Critical Muslim Studies, arguing that such systems of “international norms” are Eurocentric in character and hegemonic in practice. I argue that the promotion of a Western system of human r...
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| Language: | English |
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Pluto Journals
2018-09-01
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| Series: | ReOrient |
| Online Access: | https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169/reorient.4.1.0059 |