Mark Goodale Surrendering to Utopia (Paperback) Stanford Studies in Human Rights

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Surrendering to UtopiaCondition: NewSubtitle: An Anthropology of Human RightsAuthor: Mark GoodaleFormat: PaperbackISBN-10: 0804762139EAN: 9780804762137ISBN: 9780804762137Publisher: Stanford University PressGenre: Law & PoliticsTopic: Social Sciences, Society & CultureRelease Date: 05/01/2009Description: 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 295gBook Series: Stanford Studies in Human RightsRelease Year: 2009 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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