Practice of Human Rights Tracking Law Between the Global and the Local

Name: Practice of Human Rights Tracking Law Between the Global and the Local
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ISBN: 9780521683784

ISBN-10: 0521683785

ISBN-13: 9780521683784

Edition: 2007

Authors: Mark Goodale, Sally Engle Merry

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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…

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List price: $60.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 7/26/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 398
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.06" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



Contributors


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Locating rights, envisioning law between the global and the local




States of Violence


Introduction




Human rights as culprit, human rights as victim: rights and security in the state of exception




"Secularism is a human right!": double-binds of Buddhism, democracy, and identity in Nepal




Registers of Power


Introduction




The power of right(s): tracking empires of law and new modes of social resistance in Bolivia (and elsewhere)




Exercising rights and reconfiguring resistance in the Zapatista Juntas de Buen Gobierno




Conditions of Vulnerability


Introduction




Rights to indigenous culture in Colombia




The 2000 UN Human Trafficking Protocol: rights, enforcement, vulnerabilities




Encountering Ambivalence


Introduction




Transnational legal conflict between peasants and corporations in Burma: human rights and discursive ambivalence under the US Alien Tort Claims Act




Being Swazi, being human: custom, constitutionalism and human rights in an African polity



Conclusion: Tyrannosaurus lex: the anthropology of human rights and transnational law



Index