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Critical chatter : women and human rights in South East
Asia
Caroline Lambert, Sharon Pickering and Christine Alder
Durham, NC : Carolina Academic Press, 2003.
ISBN: 0890891206
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Book description
Critical Chatter is the politicized conversation by
which women activists in South East Asia negotiate the possibilities and
pitfalls of human rights in their activism for social change. Based on
conversations with women activists in Malaysia, the Philippines, Hong Kong,
Thailand and women from Burma living along the Thai Burma border, Lambert,
Pickering, and Alder argue that critical chatter reflects the challenges of
universality in human rights and feminism. But rather than outright reject,
through critical chatter, women activists produce a form of strategic
universality. This enables the women activists to tap into a universal
framework of human rights while simultaneously acknowledging its failure to
resonate among women in the community and its failure to recognize the
experiences of women in the articulation of human rights standards.
This book would be of interest to academics and activists interested in
current challenges to social activism theory and practice, or in the
potential application of a human rights framework to their work.
About the author
Dr Sharon Pickering is a lecturer in Criminal Justice
and Criminology in the School of Political and Social Inquiry at Monash
University.
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