Prisoners of freedom : human rights and the African poor /

In this vivid ethnography, Harri Englund investigates how ideas of freedom impede struggles against poverty and injustice in emerging democracies. Reaching beyond a narrow focus on the national elite, Prisoners of Freedom shows how foreign aid and human rights activism hamper the pursuit of democrat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Englund, Harri
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2006.
Colección:California series in public anthropology ; 14.
Temas:
Human rights > Malawi.
Poverty > Malawi.
Ethnology > Malawi.
Democracy > Malawi.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international) > Malawi.
Pauvreté > Malawi.
Ethnologie > Malawi.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Democracy
Ethnology
Human rights
Poverty
Malawi
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:In this vivid ethnography, Harri Englund investigates how ideas of freedom impede struggles against poverty and injustice in emerging democracies. Reaching beyond a narrow focus on the national elite, Prisoners of Freedom shows how foreign aid and human rights activism hamper the pursuit of democratic citizenship in Africa. The book explores how activists' aspirations of self-improvement, pursued under harsh economic conditions, find in the human rights discourse a new means to distinguish oneself from the poor masses. Among expatriates, the emphasis on abstract human rights avoids confrontati.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xi, 247 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-242) and index.
ISBN:9780520940093
0520940091

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