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  • Anthropology and Law

    A Critical Introduction

    An introduction to the anthropology of law that explores the connections between law, politics, and technologyFrom legal responsibility for genocide to rectifying past injuries to indigenous people, the anthropology of law addresses some of the crucial ethical issues of our day. Over the past twenty-five years, anthropologists have studied how new forms of law have reshaped important questions of ... Read more

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  • Reckoning with Law in Excess

    Mobilization, Confrontation, Refusal

    Edited by Mark Goodale, Olaf Zenker ...
    Reckoning with Law in Excess offers a ground-breaking approach to understanding the relationship between law and social and political transformation in a changing and uncertain world. The book's authors examine a wide range of case studies in which social movements pursue justice and social change within, against, and beyond the law. The interdisciplinary research at the heart of the volume ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Extracting the Future

    Lithium in an Era of Energy Transition

    by Mark Goodale ...
    Bolivia's troubled efforts to develop a commercial lithium industry.Bolivia's lithium accounts for a significant percentage of the world's known reserve. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research, Mark Goodale traces the development of Bolivia's closely guarded lithium project through the perspectives of a wide array of people and institutions, including workers at the Salar de Uyuni, the world's ... Read more

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  • The Bolivia Reader

    History, Culture, Politics

    Series series The Latin America Readers
    The Bolivia Reader provides a panoramic view, from antiquity to the present, of the history, culture, and politics of a country known for its ethnic and regional diversity, its rich natural resources and dilemmas of economic development, and its political conflict and creativity. Featuring both classic and little-known texts ranging from fiction, memoir, and poetry to government documents, ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Reinventing Human Rights

    by Mark Goodale ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Human Rights
    A radical vision for the future of human rights as a fundamentally reconfigured framework for global justice.Reinventing Human Rights offers a bold argument: that only a radically reformulated approach to human rights will prove adequate to confront and overcome the most consequential global problems. Charting a new path—away from either common critiques of the various incapacities of the ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Law and Anthropology

    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Law and Anthropology is a ground-breaking collection of essays that provides an original and internationally framed conception of the historical, theoretical, and ethnographic interconnections of law and anthropology. Each of the chapters in the Handbook provides a survey of the current state of scholarly debate and an argument about the future direction of research in this ... Read more

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  • Surrendering to Utopia

    An Anthropology of Human Rights

    by Mark Goodale ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Human Rights
    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 ... Read more

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  • Dilemmas of Modernity

    Bolivian Encounters with Law and Liberalism

    by Mark Goodale ...
    Dilemmas of Modernity provides an innovative approach to the study of contemporary Bolivia, moving telescopically between social, political, legal, and discursive analyses, and drawing from a range of disciplinary traditions. Based on a decade of research, it offers an account of local encounters with law and liberalism. Mark Goodale presents, through a series of finely grained readings, a window ... Read more

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  • A Revolution in Fragments

    Traversing Scales of Justice, Ideology, and Practice in Bolivia

    by Mark Goodale ...
    The years between 2006 and 2015, during which Evo Morales became Bolivia's first indigenous president, have been described as a time of democratic and cultural revolution, world renewal (Pachakuti), reconstituted neoliberalism, or simply “the process of change.” In A Revolution in Fragments Mark Goodale unpacks these various analytical and ideological frameworks to reveal the fragmentary and ... Read more

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  • Letters to the Contrary

    A Curated History of the UNESCO Human Rights Survey

    by Mark Goodale ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Human Rights
    This remarkable collection of letters reveals the debate over universal human rights. Prominent mid-twentieth-century intellectuals and leaders—including Gandhi, T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Aldous Huxley, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Arnold Schoenberg—engaged with the question of universal human rights. Letters to the Contrary presents the foundation of the intellectual struggles and ideological doubts still ... Read more

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  • Neoliberalism, Interrupted

    Social Change and Contested Governance in Contemporary Latin America

    In the 1980s and 1990s, neoliberal forms of governance largely dominated Latin American political and social life. Neoliberalism, Interrupted examines the recent and diverse proliferation of responses to neoliberalism's hegemony. In so doing, this vanguard collection of case studies undermines the conventional dichotomies used to understand transformation in this region, such as neoliberalism vs. ... Read more

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  • Human Rights Encounter Legal Pluralism

    Normative and Empirical Approaches

    Series series Oñati International Series in Law and Society
    This collection of essays interrogates how human rights law and practice acquire meaning in relation to legal pluralism, ie, the co-existence of more than one regulatory order in a same social field. As a social phenomenon, legal pluralism exists in all societies. As a legal construction, it is characteristic of particular regions, such as post-colonial contexts. Drawing on experiences from Latin ... Read more

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