Human Rights in International Perspective

Readings

• Daniel Goldstein, “Whose Vernacular?: Translating Human Rights in Local Contexts,” in Mark Goodale, ed., Human Rights at the Crossroads (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013): 111-21. [A]
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• Madeline Baer and Alison Brysk, “New Rights for Private Wrongs: Female Genital Mutilation and Global Framing Discourses,” In Clifford Bob, ed., The International Struggle for New Human Rights (U. Pennsylvania Press, 2009): 93-107. [A]
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• Clifford Bob, “’Dalit Rights Are Human Rights’: Untouchables, NGOs, and the Indian State,” In Clifford Bob, ed., The International Struggle for New Human Rights (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009): 30-51. [B]
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• Rachel Sieder and Jessica Witchell. “Advancing Indigenous Claims Through the Law: Reflections on the Guatemalan Peace Process.” In Jane K. Cowan, Marie-Bénédicte Dembour and Richard A. Wilson, eds., Culture and Rights: Anthropological Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 2001): 201-226. [B]
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• David Engel and Frank Munger. "Rights, Remembrance and Reconciliation of Difference." Law & Society Review 30, 1 (1996): 7-53. [A]
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• Amalia Lucia Cabezas. "Tourism, Sex Work, and Women's Rights in the Dominican Republic." In Alison Brysk, ed., Globalization and Human Rights (University of California press, 2002): 44-58. [B]
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• Heather Montgomery. “Imposing Rights? A Case Study of Child Prostitution in Thailand.” In Jane K. Cowan, Marie-Bénédicte Dembour and Richard A. Wilson, eds., Culture and Rights: Anthropological Perspectives (Cambridge University Press,
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