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- Roland Burke is a lecturer in history at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. He is one of the leading historians of human rights in the world, best known for his pathbreaking book, Decolonization and the Evolution of International Human Rights (Pennsylvania, 2011).
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Burke puts forward three interrelated arguments. First, he assigns a decisive role to "decolonization as a political force in the evolution of the UN human rights agenda." Second, he maintains that for anti-colonialists, human rights repre sented more than a "rhetorical weapon for lambasting the Western democracies." Third, he argues that the ...
Oct 1, 2010 · In this book, extraordinary for its clarity of argument, crispness of prose, and depth of evidence, Roland Burke successfully challenges the argument that human rights were foisted onto the Third World by Western imperialists at the United Nations (UN).
- Carol Anderson
- 2010
Roland Burke is Senior Lecturer in World History at La Trobe University, Victoria. He is the author of Decolonization and the Evolution of International Human Rights (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010).
Jun 8, 2020 · Roland Burke is senior lecturer in World History at La Trobe University and author of Decolonization and the Evolution of International Human Rights (2010). He has published extensively on the memorialization of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, histories of social and economic rights, and contribution of the Third World in the ...
- Roland Burke
- 2020
In Decolonization and the Evolution of International Human Rights, Roland Burke explores the changing impact of decolonization on the UN human rights program. By recovering the contributions of those Asian, African, and Arab voices that joined the global rights debate, Burke demonstrates the central importance of Third World influence across ...
BIO. Roland joined the department in 2009, after extensive undergraduate teaching at the University of Melbourne. His doctoral thesis, completed in 2007, examined the role of the Third World in the evolution of the post-war human rights project.
