A Good Life: Human rights and encounters with modernity

By Mary Edmunds

This book is a story. It's a story about ordinary people in very different parts of the world dealing with rapid change in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It's about times of turbulent and violent social upheaval and rupture with the past. It's about modern times. It's also about being human; what it is to be human in a modernising and globalising world; how, in responding to the circumstances of their times, different groups define, redefine, and attempt to put into practice their understandings of the good and of what constitutes a good life. And it's about how human rights have come to be not abstract universal principles but a practical source of consciousness and practice for real people.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1922144665
• ISBN13: 9781922144669
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Anu Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 9.8"