Права человека в незападных социумах

Магистратура 2020/2021

Лучший по критерию «Полезность курса для расширения кругозора и разностороннего развития»

Лучший по критерию «Новизна полученных знаний»

Статус: Курс по выбору (Политический анализ и публичная политика / Political Analysis and Public Policy)

Направление: 41.04.04. Политология

Кто читает: Кафедра публичной политики

Где читается: Факультет социальных наук

Когда читается: 1-й курс, 3, 4 модуль

Формат изучения: без онлайн-курса

Преподаватели: Дубровский Дмитрий Викторович

Прогр. обучения: Политический анализ и публичная политика

Язык: английский

Кредиты: 5

Контактные часы: 40

Full Syllabus

Abstract

The course on “Human Rights in Non Western Societies” is a theoretical and legal query on the Human Rights laws, Universal Declaration on Human Rights in the post colonized countries and the level of adaptation, assimilation and engagement on the subject of Human Rights in the Non western societies. The course shall try to examine and understand through the theoretical test on the subject of Human rights compliance and the various sets of limitations (normative, cultural and customary laws etc) that does create a distinctive human rights ecosystem in different geographical regions of the world. The course shall also examine through the other meta-concepts such as governance and democracy the transitional trajectory of the human rights compliance and its acceptance in the transitional societies and “pendulum conditionality” and backsliding of democracy in the otherwise more democratic states. At the same time, course is looking to review the situation with human rights abuse in so called Non-western countries and examine, how the alternate concept of human rights are applying to justify violations and what kind of institutes and practices are common for non-democratic regimes to mimicking and corruption of human rights ideas and practices.

Learning Objectives

Know the major concepts of human rights, as well as public policy and social discourse
Understand how human rights could be interpreted in different cultural environments
Analyze what are the motives for framing particular issues as human rights issues
Understand to what extent cultural differences in the conception of human rights affect the universality of those rights as philosophical values or legal obligations
Know the alternate (non-Western) concept of human rights

Expected Learning Outcomes

Students shall be equipped to explain the diversity of Human rights compliance in different parts of the world.
Students shall be equipped to explain the global and regional insitutions on human rights
Students shall be equipped to explain the major issues brought to human rights by globalization
Students shall be equipped to explain the diversity of approaches to human rights
Students shall be equipped to explain how political regimes affect human rights
Working with primary data sources and literature on the problems of human rights
Students shall be equipped to explain the issues of ethnic minorities in post-soviet societies
Students shall be equipped to explain how new media affects human rights in non-western societies

Course Contents

Human Rights and cultural pluralism: The generations of human rights and the Universal Declaration
Global and regional institutions, declarations, and covenants on human rights
Globalization and issues of human rights protection in Western and Non-Western societies
Universalism and particularism: concepts of Non-Western approach to human rights
Approaches and methods of human rights analysis
Political regimes, policies and human rights: the cases of Non-Western countries
Ethnic minorities Rights Issues in Post-Soviet countries
Information warfare and human rights
New media in plural world: an impact on non-western societies
Sustainable development goals as an instrument of human rights protection
Entrepreneurship, corporate social responsibility and human rights
Human rights concepts in Russian Orthodox Church and Islamic tradition
Campaigning and human rights activism as an instrument of human rights promotion
Big events as a tool of promotion of human rights in Non-Western countries
Enforcement to human rights: peacebuilding and intervention
The right to self-determination, self-representation, and development
Human rights as a tool for legitimation and justification of policy and political order
The role of NGOs in promotion of human rights

Assessment Elements

Active participation
Personal presentation (HR in the particular Non-western country)
Group presentation - Religion and Human rights
Final paper

Interim Assessment

Interim assessment (4 module)
0.1 * Active participation + 0.4 * Final paper + 0.25 * Group presentation - Religion and Human rights + 0.25 * Personal presentation (HR in the particular Non-western country)

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

Bagchi, S. S., & Das, A. (2013). Human Rights and the Third World : Issues and Discourses. Lanham: Lexington Books. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=651046
Donnelly, J. (1982). Human Rights and Human Dignity: An Analytic Critique of Non-Western Conceptions of Human Rights. American Political Science Review, (02), 303. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.a.cup.apsrev.v76y1982i02p303.316.18
Horowitz, S. A., & Schnabel, A. (2004). Human Rights and Societies in Transition : Causes, Consequences, Responses. New York: United Nations University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=107754
Mapp, S. C. (2014). Human Rights and Social Justice in a Global Perspective : An Introduction to International Social Work (Vol. Second Edition). New York: Oxford University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=746357
Sen, A. (1998). Universal truths. Harvard International Review, 20(3), 40. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=f5h&AN=748883

Recommended Additional Bibliography

Dallmayr, F. (2002). "Asian Values " and Global Human Rights. Philosophy East & West, 52(2), 173. https://doi.org/10.1353/pew.2002.0025
Hajjar Leib, L. (2011). Human Rights and the Environment : Philosophical, Theoretical and Legal Perspectives. Web server without geographic relation, Web server without geographic relation (org): Brill. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.9E51B64E
Tahmindjis, P., & Graupner, H. (2005). Sexuality and Human Rights : A Global Overview. Binghamton, NY: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=783000
Wilson, R., & Mitchell, J. P. (2003). Human Rights in Global Perspective : Anthropological Studies of Rights, Claims and Entitlements. London: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=95433

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