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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Anthropological ethics
ISBN : UOM:39015014581436
Human rights by Clifford R. Barnett.
Author : Mark Goodale
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015082755979
Part I: Conceptual and historical foundations
Author : Mark Goodale
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804771214
Surrendering to Utopia is a critical and wide-ranging study of anthropology's contributions to human rights. Providing a unique window into the underlying political and intellectual currents that have shaped human rights in the postwar period, this ambitious work opens up new opportunities for research, analysis, and political action. At the book's core, the author describes a "well-tempered human rights"—an orientation to human rights in the twenty-first century that is shaped by a sense of humility, an appreciation for the disorienting fact of multiplicity, and a willingness to make the mundaneness of social practice a source of ethical inspiration. In examining the curious history of anthropology's engagement with human rights, this book moves from more traditional anthropological topics within the broader human rights community—for example, relativism and the problem of culture—to consider a wider range of theoretical and empirical topics. Among others, it examines the link between anthropology and the emergence of "neoliberal" human rights, explores the claim that anthropology has played an important role in legitimizing these rights, and gauges whether or not this is evidence of anthropology's potential to transform human rights theory and practice more generally.
Author : Mark Goodale
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781405183352
This innovative reader brings together key works that demonstrate the important and unique contributions anthropologists have made to the understanding and practice of human rights over the last 60 years. Draws on a range of intellectual and methodological approaches to reveal both the ambiguities and potential of the postwar human rights project Brings together essays by both contemporary luminaries and seminal figures to provide a rich introduction to the subject Supplemented with selected international human rights documents and links to websites on human rights
Author : Richard Wilson
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Cultural relativism
ISBN : UOM:39015040648142
Drawing on case studies from around the world - including Iran, Guatemala, USA and Mexico - this collection documents how transnational human rights discourses and legal institutions are materialised, imposed, resisted and transformed in a variety of contexts.
Author : Paul Farmer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520243262
"Pathologies of Power" uses harrowing stories of life and death to argue thatthe promotion of social and economic rights of the poor is the most importanthuman rights struggle of our times.
Author : Jon P. Mitchell,Richard A. Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134409747
In the West we frequently pay lip service to universal notions of human rights. But do we ever consider how these work in local contexts and across diverse cultural and ethical structures? Do human rights agendas address the problems many people face, or are they more often the imposition of Western values onto largely non-Western communities? Human Rights in a Global Perspective develops a social critique of rights agendas. It provides an understanding of how rights discussions and institutions can construct certain types of subjects such as victims and perpetrators, and certain types of act, such as common crimes and crimes against humanity. Using examples from the United States, Europe, India and South Africa, the authors restore the social dimension to rights processes and suggest some ethical alternatives to current practice.
Author : Mark Goodale,Sally Engle Merry
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479836857
An introduction to the anthropology of law that explores the connections between law, politics, and technology From legal responsibility for genocide to rectifying past injuries to indigenous people, the anthropology of law addresses some of the crucial ethical issues of our day. Over the past twenty-five years, anthropologists have studied how new forms of law have reshaped important questions of citizenship, biotechnology, and rights movements, among many others. Meanwhile, the rise of international law and transitional justice has posed new ethical and intellectual challenges to anthropologists. Anthropology and Law provides a comprehensive overview of the anthropology of law in the post-Cold War era. Mark Goodale introduces the central problems of the field and builds on the legacy of its intellectual history, while a foreword by Sally Engle Merry highlights the challenges of using the law to seek justice on an international scale. The book’s chapters cover a range of intersecting areas including language and law, history, regulation, indigenous rights, and gender. For a complete understanding of the consequential ways in which anthropologists have studied, interacted with, and critiqued, the ways and means of law, Anthropology and Law is required reading.
Author : Mark Goodale,Sally Engle Merry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521865174
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.
Author : Jane K. Cowan,Marie-B鈋n鈋dicte·Dembour,Richard A. Wilson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2001-11-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 0521797357
Part I: Setting universal rights
Author : Winifred Tate
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520252820
Explores how the idea of human rights is actually employed by activists and human rights professionals. Tate, an anthropologist and activist with extensive experience in Colombia, finds that radically different ideas about human rights have shaped three groups of human rights professionals working there--nongovernmental activists, state representatives, and military officers. From publisher description.
Author : Ronald Niezen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520936690
"International indigenism" may sound like a contradiction in terms, but it is indeed a global phenomenon and a growing form of activism. In his fluent and accessible narrative, Ronald Niezen examines the ways the relatively recent emergence of an internationally recognized identity—"indigenous peoples"—intersects with another relatively recent international movement—the development of universal human rights laws and principles. This movement makes use of human rights instruments and the international organizations of states to resist the political, cultural, and economic incursions of individual states. The concept "indigenous peoples" gained currency in the social reform efforts of the International Labor Organization in the 1950s, was taken up by indigenous nongovernmental organizations, and is now fully integrated into human rights initiatives and international organizations. Those who today call themselves indigenous peoples share significant similarities in their colonial and postcolonial experiences, such as loss of land and subsistence, abrogation of treaties, and the imposition of psychologically and socially destructive assimilation policies. Niezen shows how, from a new position of legitimacy and influence, they are striving for greater recognition of collective rights, in particular their rights to self-determination in international law. These efforts are influencing local politics in turn and encouraging more ambitious goals of autonomy in indigenous communities worldwide.
Author : Sally Engle Merry
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226520759
Human rights law and the legal protection of women from violence are still fairly new concepts. As a result, substantial discrepancies exist between what is decided in the halls of the United Nations and what women experience on a daily basis in their communities. Human Rights and Gender Violence is an ambitious study that investigates the tensions between global law and local justice. As an observer of UN diplomatic negotiations as well as the workings of grassroots feminist organizations in several countries, Sally Engle Merry offers an insider's perspective on how human rights law holds authorities accountable for the protection of citizens even while reinforcing and expanding state power. Providing legal and anthropological perspectives, Merry contends that human rights law must be framed in local terms to be accepted and effective in altering existing social hierarchies. Gender violence in particular, she argues, is rooted in deep cultural and religious beliefs, so change is often vehemently resisted by the communities perpetrating the acts of aggression. A much-needed exploration of how local cultures appropriate and enact international human rights law, this book will be of enormous value to students of gender studies and anthropology alike.
Author : Pamela Slotte,Miia Halme
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107107649
Scholars of history, law, theology and anthropology critically revisit the history of human rights.
Author : Harri Englund
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520249240
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