عنوان

The practice of human rights

(Number (ISBN

9780521865 0521865174 9780521683 0521683785

Number

28464

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

eng

Title Proper

The practice of human rights

Other Title Information

:tracking law between the global and the local

First Statement of Responsibility

/ editors, Mark Goodale and Sally Engle Merry

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Cambridge ; New York

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

: Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

, 2007.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xii, 384 p

Other Physical Details

. 23 cm.

Series Title

(Cambridge studies in law and society)

Text of Note

Language: انگلیسی

Text of Note

Print

Text of Note

ng

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

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.

Entry Element

Human rights

Goodale, Mark

Merry, Sally Engle,1944-

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