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The practice of human rights : tracking law between the global and the local tracking law between the global and the local / editors, Mark Goodale and Sally Engle Merry. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007. - xii, 384 p. ; 23 cm. - Cambridge studies in law and society .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 states 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 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 U.S. 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 / Mark Goodale -- Sally Engle Merry -- Daniel M. Goldstein -- Lauren Leve -- Laura Nader -- Mark Goodale -- Shannon Speed -- Sally Engle Merry -- Jean E. Jackson -- Kay Warren -- Balakrishnan Rajagopal -- John G. Dale -- Sari Wastell -- Richard Ashby Wilson. pt. I. pt. II. pt. III. pt. IV.

ISBN: 9780521865173 (hbk.) 9780521683784 (pbk.) 9780511334115

LCCN: 2007281367

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA733041 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 013735956 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Human rights.

LC Class. No.: K3240 / .P72 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 341.48