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...cosmopolitan norms embedded in human rights and the particularities of local cultural practices. Indeed, she argues that this very way of setting up the question that is so familiar in debates in international ethics--in terms of cosmopolitan versus "cultural" norms--is fundamentally misleading. It is not the case that human rights norms are somehow beyond culture; rather, they represent a particular kind of culture, one that is increasingly embedded in transnational and national elites, both governmental and nongovernmental, but one that also remains alien to many grassroots activists in different parts of the world. Moreover, to speak of culture...
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