An edition of The practice of human rights
(2003)
The practice of human rights
tracking law between the global and the local
by Mark Goodale and Sally Engle Merry
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Table of 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 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 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 monarchy / 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
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