dc.rights.license | CC-BY-NC-ND | |
dc.contributor.advisor | Malcontent, Peter | |
dc.contributor.author | Linden, I.W. van der | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-02-20T18:01:04Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-02-20T18:01:04Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/31874 | |
dc.description.abstract | When the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration (AHRD) was adopted in 2012, it led to international
criticism that it fell below international human rights standards. Even nuanced scholarly works referred
to cultural relativism and Asian values, while no research had been done on public opinion regarding
the AHRD in the region. The AHRD therefore provides an interesting and concrete starting point to
re-examine universalism versus cultural relativism in the region where Asian values were once so
fiercely proclaimed. This thesis answers the question to what extent South East Asian newspapers lean
towards universalism or cultural relativism in their articles on this declaration. It follows the definitions
of David Duquette on several forms of universalism and cultural relativism and uses discourse analysis
on the 86 articles from the Jakarta Post from Indonesia, the Bangkok Post from Thailand and the Phnom
Penh Post from Cambodia between the first of January 2012 to the last of December 2013. It then
concludes that these newspapers and their readers, the educated upper and middle classes, lean most
towards strong universalism. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | Utrecht University | |
dc.format.extent | 710372 | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.title | ASEAN'S Struggle with Human Rights: Universalism versus Cultural Relativism | |
dc.type.content | Master Thesis | |
dc.rights.accessrights | Open Access | |
dc.subject.keywords | ASEAN, AHRD, human rights, Asian values, universalism, cultural relativism, public
opinion, newspapers | |
dc.subject.courseuu | International Relations in Historical Perspective | |