Description |
xii, 384 pages ; 23 cm. |
Series |
Cambridge studies in law and society |
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Cambridge studies in law and society.
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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.
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Added Author |
Goodale, Mark.
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Merry, Sally Engle, 1944-2020
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ISBN |
9780521865173 hardback |
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0521865174 hardback |
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9780521683784 paperback |
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0521683785 paperback |
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0511334117 |
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9780511334115 |
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