Human Rights, Culture and Context
Anthropological Perspectives
Published on 20. March 1998
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-7453-1143-2 (ISBN)
Description
Drawing on case studies from around the world - including Iran, Guatemala, USA and Mexico - this collection documents how transnational human rights discourses and legal institutions are materialised, imposed, resisted and transformed in a variety of contexts.
Reviews / Votes
'By establishing a link between normative and empirical analysis, this book offers valuable insights into human rights discourse' -- International AffairsMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Library binding
Dimensions
Height: 215 mm
Width: 135 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7453-1143-2 (9780745311432)
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Person
Richard Wilson has carried out extensive research on the relationship between political violence, religion and ethnicity in Guatemala. He is the author of Maya Resurgence in Guatemala: Q'egchi Experiences (1995, University of Oklahoma Press).
Content
Acknowledgements
Notes on contributors
1. Introduction: Human Rights, Culture and Context by Richard A. Wilson, Sussex Univerisity
2. Legal Pluralism and Transnational Culture: The Ka Ho'okolokolonui Kanaka Maoli Tribunal, Hawai'i, 1993 by Sally Engle Merry, Wellesley College
3. Multiculturalism, Individualism and Human Rights: Romanticism, the Enlightenment and Lessons from Mauritius by Thomas Hylland Eriksen, University of Oslo
4. Liberalism, Socio-economic Rights and the Politics of Identity: from Moral Economy to Indigenous Rights by John Gledhill, University College, London
5. On Torture, or Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment by Talal Asad, New School, NYU
6. Representing Human Rights Violations: Social Contexts and Subjectivities by Richard A. Wilson, Sussex University
7. Universal and Sustainable Human Rights? Special Tribunals in Guatemala by Jenny Schirmer, Harvard University
8. To Whom Should We Listen? Human Rights Activism in Two Guatemalan Land Disputes by David Stoll
Bibliography
Index
Notes on contributors
1. Introduction: Human Rights, Culture and Context by Richard A. Wilson, Sussex Univerisity
2. Legal Pluralism and Transnational Culture: The Ka Ho'okolokolonui Kanaka Maoli Tribunal, Hawai'i, 1993 by Sally Engle Merry, Wellesley College
3. Multiculturalism, Individualism and Human Rights: Romanticism, the Enlightenment and Lessons from Mauritius by Thomas Hylland Eriksen, University of Oslo
4. Liberalism, Socio-economic Rights and the Politics of Identity: from Moral Economy to Indigenous Rights by John Gledhill, University College, London
5. On Torture, or Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment by Talal Asad, New School, NYU
6. Representing Human Rights Violations: Social Contexts and Subjectivities by Richard A. Wilson, Sussex University
7. Universal and Sustainable Human Rights? Special Tribunals in Guatemala by Jenny Schirmer, Harvard University
8. To Whom Should We Listen? Human Rights Activism in Two Guatemalan Land Disputes by David Stoll
Bibliography
Index