Constructing human rights in the age of globalization

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Observing Human Rights in an Age of Globalization -- Part I. The Struggle to Control the Human Rights Regime -- 1. Who Owns Our Culture? Intellectual Property, Human Rights, and Globalization -- 2. The Consequences of a Constructed Universal: Democracy and Civil Rights in the Modern State -- 3. Reflections on the Intersections of Environment, Development, and Human Rights in the Context of Globalization -- 4. Translating a Liberal Feminism: Revisiting Susan Okin on Freedom, Culture, and Women's Rights -- Part II. The Dynamics and Counterdynamics of Globalization -- 5. The Politics of Culture and Human Rights in Iran: Globalizing and Localizing Dynamics -- 6. Outside Actors and the Pursuit of Civil Society in China: Harnessing the Forces of Globalization -- 7. Globalization and Human Rights for Workers in China: Convergence or Collision? -- 8. Localizing Human Rights in an Era of Globalization: The Case of Hong Kong -- Part III. Setting the Terms of Debate: Pursuing Global Consensus -- 9. The Challenges to International Human Rights -- 10. Obstacles on the Road to an Overlapping Consensus on Human Rights -- 11. Globalizing Cultural Values: International Human Rights Discourse as Moral Persuasion -- 12. Suffering as Common Ground -- Conclusion: Reconstructing Human Rights in the Global Society -- About the Contributors -- Index.