Buchumschlag
Surrendering to utopia: an anthropology of human rights
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Beteilige Person: Goodale, Mark (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Stanford, California Stanford University Press 2009
Schriftenreihe:Stanford studies in human rights
Schlagwörter:
Menschenrecht
Human rights > Anthropological aspects
Political anthropology
Politische Anthropologie
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Abstract:Surrendering to Utopia is a critical and wide-ranging study of anthropology's contributions to human rights. Providing a unique window into the underlying political and intellectual currents that have shaped human rights in the postwar period, this ambitious work opens up new opportunities for research, analysis, and political action. At the book's core, the author describes a "well-tempered human rights" - an orientation to human rights in the twenty-first century that is shaped by a sense of humility, an appreciation for the disorienting fact of multiplicity, and a willingness to make the mundaneness of social practice a source of ethical inspiration. In examining the curious history of anthropology's engagement with human rights, this book moves from more traditional anthropological topics within the broader human rights community - for example, relativism and the problem of culture - to consider a wider range of theoretical and empirical topics. Among others, it examines the link between anthropology and the emergence of "neoliberal" human rights, explores the claim that anthropology has played an important role in legitimizing these rights, and gauges whether or not this is evidence of anthropology's potential to transform human rights theory and practice more generally.
Beschreibung:Literaturverz. S. 157 - 170
Umfang:XII, 180 Seiten
ISBN:9780804762120
9780804762137

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