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Title The practice of human rights : tracking law between the global and the local / editors, Mark Goodale and Sally Engle Merry.

Publication Info. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  341.48 P895P    Check Shelf
Description xii, 384 pages ; 23 cm.
Series Cambridge studies in law and society
Cambridge studies in law and society.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Subject Human rights.
Added Author Goodale, Mark.
Merry, Sally Engle, 1944-2020
ISBN 9780521865173 hardback
0521865174 hardback
9780521683784 paperback
0521683785 paperback
0511334117
9780511334115
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