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Human Rights in Twentieth-Century Australia (Hardcover)
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Human Rights in Twentieth-Century Australia (Hardcover)
Series: Human Rights in History
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This groundbreaking study understands the 'long history' of human
rights in Australia from the moment of their supposed invention in
the 1940s to official incorporation into the Australian government
bureaucracy in the 1980s. To do so, a wide cast of individuals,
institutions and publics from across the political spectrum are
surveyed, who translated global ideas into local settings and made
meaning of a foreign discourse to suit local concerns and
predilections. These individuals created new organisations to
spread the message of human rights or found older institutions
amenable to their newfound concerns, adopting rights language with
a mixture of enthusiasm and opportunism. Governments, on the other
hand, engaged with or ignored human rights as its shifting
meanings, international currency and domestic reception ebbed and
flowed. Finally, individuals understood and (re)translated human
rights ideas throughout this period: writing letters, books or
poems and sympathising in new, global ways.
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