Paradoxical normativities in Brunei Darussalam and Malaysia: Islamic law and the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration
Brunei and Malaysia are promoting the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration but enforce a brand of Islamic law that systematically violates it. The paradoxical ways in which policymakers are navigating between the two, and the empirical realities of Islamic governance, impede the project of a transdoctrina...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2016
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| In: |
Asian survey
Year: 2016, Volume: 56, Issue: 3, Pages: 415-441 |
| Further subjects: | B
Brunei
B Human rights B Islamic law B Religion B Association of Southeast Asian Nations B Politics B Problem B Malaysia B Governance |
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Volltext (kostenfrei) |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | Brunei and Malaysia are promoting the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration but enforce a brand of Islamic law that systematically violates it. The paradoxical ways in which policymakers are navigating between the two, and the empirical realities of Islamic governance, impede the project of a transdoctrinal justification of human rights. |
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| ISSN: | 1533-838X |
| Contains: | In: Asian survey
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