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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.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Cambridge studies in law and societyPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.Description: xii, 384 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780521865173 (hbk.)
  • 9780521683784 (pbk.)
  • 9780511334115
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 341.48 22
LOC classification:
  • K3240 .P72 2007
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Contents:
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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