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Palaces of hope :

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1107566363

(Number (ISBN

1108113915

(Number (ISBN

1108114598

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1316412199

(Number (ISBN

9781107566361

(Number (ISBN

9781108113915

(Number (ISBN

9781108114592

(Number (ISBN

9781316412190

Erroneous ISBN

1107127491

Erroneous ISBN

9781107127494

Title Proper

Palaces of hope :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

the anthropology of global organizations /

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Ronald Niezen, Maria Sapignoli.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2017.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource

Series Title

Cambridge studies in law and society

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

"This volume assembles in one place the work of scholars who are making key contributions to a new approach to the United Nations, and to global organizations and international law more generally. Anthropology has in recent years taken on global organizations as a legitimate source of its subject matter. The research that is being done in this field gives a human face to these world-reforming institutions. Palaces of Hope demonstrates that these institutions are not monolithic or uniform, even though loosely connected by a common organizational network"--

Text of Note

"This volume assembles in one place the work of scholars who are making key contributions to a new approach to the United Nations, and to global organizations and international law more generally. Anthropology has in recent years taken on global organizations as a legitimate source of its subject matter. The research that is being done in this field gives a human face to these world-reforming institutions. Palaces of Hope demonstrates that these institutions are not monolithic or uniform, even though loosely connected by a common organizational network. They vary above all in their powers and forms of public engagement. Yet there are common threads that run through the studies included here: the actions of global institutions in practice, everyday forms of hope and their frustration, and the will to improve confronted with the realities of nationalism, neoliberalism, and the structures of international power"--

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MIL

Stock Number

986787

International agencies.

Law and anthropology.

International agencies.

Internationale Organisation

Law and anthropology.

LAW-- General.

LAW-- International.

LAW-- 051000

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Niezen, Ronald

Sapignoli, Maria

Date of Transaction

20200822145947.0

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Electronic name

[Book]

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