A Good Life: Human rights and encounters with modernity (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781922144669)

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.

Author: Mary Edmunds
ISBN-10: 1922144665
ISBN-13: 9781922144669
Publisher: Anu Press
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2013
Pages: 316
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.59lbs
Size: 9.84h x 6.93w x 0.86d