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Anthropology, Human Rights, And Legal Knowledge: Culture In The Iron Cage, Annelise Riles
Anthropology, Human Rights, And Legal Knowledge: Culture In The Iron Cage, Annelise Riles
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
In this article, I draw on ethnography in the particular zone of engagement between anthropologists, on the one hand, and human rights lawyers who are skeptical of the human rights regime, on the other hand. I argue that many of the problems anthropologists encounter with the appropriation and marginalization of anthropology's analytical tools can be understood in terms of the legal character of human rights. In particular, discursive engagement between anthropology and human rights is animated by the pervasive instrumentalism of legal knowledge. I contend that both anthropologists who seek to describe the culture of human rights and lawyers who …
Legal Excisions Omissions Are Not Accidents, Timothy Webster
Legal Excisions Omissions Are Not Accidents, Timothy Webster
Cornell International Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Defending Non-Combatants: A Reply To Richard Arneson, Burke Hendrix
Defending Non-Combatants: A Reply To Richard Arneson, Burke Hendrix
Cornell International Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Employing Health Rights For Global Justice: The Promise Of Public Health In Response To The Insalubrious Ramifications Of Globalization , Benjamin Mason Meier
Employing Health Rights For Global Justice: The Promise Of Public Health In Response To The Insalubrious Ramifications Of Globalization , Benjamin Mason Meier
Cornell International Law Journal
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Imagine A World Without Hunger: The Hurdles Of Global Justice, Muna Ndulo
Imagine A World Without Hunger: The Hurdles Of Global Justice, Muna Ndulo
Cornell International Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Social Rights Are Human Rights: Actualizing The Rights To Work And Social Security In Africa, Nsongurua J. Udombana
Social Rights Are Human Rights: Actualizing The Rights To Work And Social Security In Africa, Nsongurua J. Udombana
Cornell International Law Journal
No abstract provided.
The Wages Of Just War, Ruti Teitel
The Wages Of Just War, Ruti Teitel
Cornell International Law Journal
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Redefining Combatants, David Whippman
Redefining Combatants, David Whippman
Cornell International Law Journal
No abstract provided.