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The Transforming Power of Cultural Rights
Helle Porsdam
其他書名
A Promising Law and Humanities Approach
出版
Cambridge University Press
, 2019
ISBN
1108580181
9781108580182
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=V4UgxQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
"Cultural rights constitute one of the most exciting new frontiers of human rights research and practice. Cultural rights are also the ultimate law and humanities topic. These are good enough reasons for making cultural rights the main focus of a book. But there are other reasons, too. Cultural rights are both transformative and empowering rights. They enable people to aspire to a better future for themselves, their families, and the society in which they live, and they play a key role in realizing all other human rights. Furthermore, they provide a much-needed discourse or common forum in which we can explore, negotiate, and come to new cross-cultural understandings. All of this is supremely important today, at a time when respect for cultural diversity is a key concern worldwide, and when migration and advances in technology are increasing the level of cultural exchange but also fostering cultural clashes and incompatibilities previously masked by distance"--