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Surrendering to Utopia - An Anthropology of Human Rights (Hardcover)
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Surrendering to Utopia - An Anthropology of Human Rights (Hardcover)
Series: Stanford Studies in Human Rights
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"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.
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