Exploring the politics of an anthropologist, this collection of essays is part of a series which addresses social, political and cultural issues confronting human populations throughout the world.
Anthropologists study other people and worry about it. In the past this took the form of a professional desire to make our politics always somewhere else and to do with persons characterized as in some way different from ourselves. Now distances shrink and old forms of differenc…
Scope and content: "Human Rights Protection in Global Politics analyzes the contemporary human rights responsibilities of state, non-state and international actors. It includes an interdisciplinary set of perspectives based in international relations, politics, law and philosoph…
This volume, based on detailed case studies from around the world, subjects some experiments testing centralised and local management of natural resources to critical study, and suggests limits to the participative approach.