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Religion And Spaces Of Technology: Constructing And Contesting Nation, Transnation, And Place, Lily Kong
Religion And Spaces Of Technology: Constructing And Contesting Nation, Transnation, And Place, Lily Kong
Research Collection School of Social Sciences
In this paper, I focus on one particular technological development that has come to influence religious practice in significant ways-religious broadcasting. Whereas computer-mediated communications now garner growing research attention, I have chosen to remember the influence of the older technology of broadcasting for its continued influence on myriad lives. In bringing this focus to bear on another major phenomenon, that of trans nationalism, I have come to understand how religious broadcasting does not contribute in a straightforward, linear fashion to perpetuating transnational identities and communities, but is instead implicated in the assertion of the national in the face of transnational …
Rights Of Culture, Rights Of Conscience, Chandran Kukathas
Rights Of Culture, Rights Of Conscience, Chandran Kukathas
Research Collection School of Social Sciences
In this contribution I take up a particularly troubling issue in the theory of human rights. It is the issue of intervention to defend or uphold — or re-assert and re-establish — human rights. The issue is a troubling one because intervention in the affairs of others is always something we should be wary of, not least because history is full of unhappy episodes of intervention, from the Spanish in the Americas to the Chinese in Tibet. Indeed, so difficult and complex are the issues raised that one might be tempted in a discussion of human rights simply to separate …