The Practice of Human Rights: Tracking Law Between the Global and the Local
by Mark Goodale
Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
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Human rights are now the dominant approach to social justice globally. But how do human rights work? What do they do? Drawing on anthropological studies of human rights work from around the world, this book examines human rights in practice. It shows how groups and organizations mobilize human rights language in a variety of local settings, often differently from those imagined by human rights law itself. The case studies reveal the contradictions and ambiguities of human rights approaches show more to various forms of violence. They show that this openness is not a failure of universal human rights as a coherent legal or ethical framework but an essential element in the development of living and organic ideas of human rights in context. Studying human rights in practice means examining the channels of communication and institutional structures that mediate between global ideas and local situations. Suitable for use on inter-disciplinary courses globally. show lessTags
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Some gems reside in this collection, and some less-than gems. For this reader, the chapters that dwelt overly long in jargon-dense theorizing to no fruitful purpose were tiresome, while those that focused primarily on ethnographic description were the most successful. The concluding chapter by Richard Wilson was especially helpful at surveying the major themes in a usefully straightforward manner.
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Mark Goodale is Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Lausanne. He is the author of A Revolution in Fragments (2019), Anthropology and Law (2017), and Surrendering to Utopia (Stanford, 2009), among other works.
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