Normative Pluralism and Human Rights: Social Normativities in Conflict

ISBN-13: 9781138056596 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 284 str.

Kyriaki Topidi

Opis

This volume studies the tensions between the universalist aspirations of human rights and their local realizations. It reflects on how these tensions can be eased, while observing how they occur. The authors examine how obedience or resistance to the official law is generated through the interaction of a multiplicity of conflicting norms, interpretations and practices. It is argued that legal responsiveness to state law depends on how people with different identities deal with it, narrate it and build expectations from it, bearing in mind that legal pluralism may also operate as a phenomenon of exclusion of certain communities from the public sphere.

O autorze

Kyriaki Topidi is Senior Lecturer and Associate Director of the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Law and Religion at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lucerne in Switzerland. She has undertaken extensive research in the areas of minority rights, human rights law, comparative constitutional law and law and religion issues. Her current research interests focus on religious diversity in public school systems. She is the author and editor of a number of volumes and articles that problematize the use of human rights in plural settings.