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The practice of human rights : tracking law between the global and the local / editors, Mark Goodale and Sally Engle Merry.
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Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Description
xii, 384 pages ; 23 cm.
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Firestone Library - Stacks
K3240 .P72 2007
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Human rights
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Goodale, Mark
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Merry, Sally Engle, 1944-2020
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Series
Cambridge studies in law and society
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Summary note
Using ethnographic case studies, this is aimed at courses globally in social sciences and law. The volume's four section - violence, power, vulnerability, and ambiguity - are divided thematically without regard to traditional categories within human rights studies. Human rights are now the dominant approach to social justice globally. But how do human rights work? What do they do? Drawing on anthropological studies of human rights work from around the world, this book examines human rights in practice. It shows how groups and organizations mobilize human rights language in a variety of local settings, often differently from those imagined by human rights law itself. The case studies reveal the contradictions and ambiguities of human rights approaches to various forms of violence. They show that this openness is not a failure of universal human rights as a coherent legal or ethical framework but an essential element in the development of living and organic ideas of human rights in context. Studying human rights in practice means examining the channels of communication and institutional structures that mediate between global ideas and local situations. Suitable for use on inter-disciplinary courses globally.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction. Locating rights, envisioning law between the global and the local / Mark Goodale
pt. I. States of violence
Introduction / Sally Engle Merry
Human rights as culprit, human rights as victim: rights and security in the states of exception / Daniel M. Goldstein
"Secularism is a human right!": double-binds of Buddhism, democracy, and identity in Nepal / Lauren Leve
pt. II. Registers of power
Introduction / Laura Nader
The power of right(s): tracking empires of law and new modes of social resistance in Bolivia (and elsewhere) / Mark Goodale
Exercising rights and reconfiguring resistance in the Zapatista Juntas de Buen Gobierno / Shannon Speed
pt. III. Conditions of vulnerability
Rights to Indigenous culture in Colombia / Jean E. Jackson
The 2000 UN Human Trafficking Protocol: rights, enforcement, vulnerabilities / Kay Warren
pt. IV. Encountering ambivalence
Introduction / Balakrishnan Rajagopal
Transnational legal conflict between peasants and corporations in Burma: human rights and discursive ambivalence under the U.S. Alien Tort Claims Act / John G. Dale
Being Swazi, being human: custom, constitutionalism and human rights in an African polity / Sari Wastell
Conclusion. Tyrannosaurus lex: the anthropology of human rights and transnational law / Richard Ashby Wilson.
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ISBN
9780521865173 ((hbk.))
0521865174 ((hbk.))
9780521683784 ((pbk.))
0521683785 ((pbk.))
0511334117
9780511334115
0511819196
9780511819193
LCCN
2007281367
OCLC
124025607
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