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The practice of human rights: tracking law between the global and the local

By Mark Goodale , Sally Engle Merry

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2007
ISBN
0521865174, 9780521865173, 9780511335341, 9780521683784, 0521683785
Open Library ID
OL10437665M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2194887 bytes)
Series
Cambridge studies in law and society
Pages
398\398
Library
torrents.ru tech collections 2009-11-14
Scanned
yes
Time added
2010-01-11 02:35:34

Description

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 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.

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