This is broken down into 3 discussion posts: 1st Discussion post question: Based
This is broken down into 3 discussion posts:
1st Discussion post question: Based on the examples in the three articles, how do local activists “translate” and “vernacularize” human rights? As a result, what can human rights do in these local struggles?
Sally Engle Merry . 2006. “Transnational Human Rights and Local Activism: Mapping the Middle.” American Anthropologist 108(1), pp. 38-51.
Shannon Speed.pdf 2006. “At the Crossroads of Human Rights and Anthropology: Toward a Critically Engaged Activist Research.” American Anthropologist 108(1) pp. 66-76
Khoja Moolji.pdf Shenila S. 2017. “The making of humans and their others in and through transnational human rights advocacy: Exploring the cases of Mukhtar Mai and Malala Yousafzai.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 42(2), pp. 377-402.
Discussion post #2
How would Wong’s argument about NGO structures help explain Coley’s question about Darfur? Do you agree with Coley’s rationalist account, why or why not?
Wong book.pdf , Wendy H. 2012. Internal Affairs : How the Structure of NGOs Transforms Human Rights. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, (available as ebook on CUNY library), Introduction, Chs 1-2.
Hertel.pdf , 2006, “New Moves in Transnational Advocacy: Getting Labor and Economic Rights on the Table in Unexpected Ways,” Global Governance 12(3): pp 263-281.
Coley.pdf , J. S. (2013). Theorizing issue selection in advocacy organizations: an analysis of human rights activism around Darfur and the Congo, 1998–2010. Sociological Perspectives, 56(2), 191-212.
Discussion post #3
Explain the conflict btw actors in Hertel’s article. How did the actors use different mechanisms to support their interests? How do less-resourced actors influence the transnational human rights agenda?
Wong book.pdf , Wendy H. 2012. Internal Affairs : How the Structure of NGOs Transforms Human Rights. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, (available as ebook on CUNY library), Introduction, Chs 1-2.
Hertel.pdf , 2006, “New Moves in Transnational Advocacy: Getting Labor and Economic Rights on the Table in Unexpected Ways,” Global Governance 12(3): pp 263-281.
Coley.pdf , J. S. (2013). Theorizing issue selection in advocacy organizations: an analysis of human rights activism around Darfur and the Congo, 1998–2010. Sociological Perspectives, 56(2), 191-212.
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