The practice of human rights : tracking law between the global and the local /

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 right...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Goodale, Mark (Editor ), Merry, Sally Engle, 1944-2020 (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Colección:Cambridge studies in law and society.
Temas:
Human rights.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
Menschenrecht
mensenrechten
human rights
ethiek
ethics
recht
law
antropologie
anthropology
Human Rights
Mensenrechten
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 the Zapatista Juntas de Buen Gobierno / Shannon Speed
  • pt. III. Conditions of vulnerability
  • Introduction / Sally Engle Merry
  • 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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