Human Rights
Human Rights: A Political & Cultural Critique
I am late to discover Makua Mutua’s well cited (over 1,100 as of this post) book “Human Rights: A Political & Cultural Critique” (2002). Published by the University of Pennsylvania Press, this is work that inspired many of the critiques that followed. Highly recommended. A few notes: “I wanted to explain why I believe that […]
Tags: #Critique #Eurocentric #Human Rights #Ideology #Makua Mutua
Dignity & Rights: An Islamic Perspective
In seeking to democratize thinking about ethics, recent posts have covered Islamic perspectives on justice and equity, this book covers the Islamic perspective of dignity, from the book “The Dignity of Man: An Islamic Perspective” (1999) by Mohammed Hashim Kamali. A few notes: “Islam’s perception of human rights is not premised on the individual verses […]
The Concept of Human Rights in Africa
“Human rights talk constitutes one of the main elements in the ideological armoury of imperialism. Yet from the point of view of the African people, human rights struggles constitute the stuff of their daily lives. For these two interconnected reasons, human rights talk needs to be subjected to a closer historical and political scrutiny.” (p. […]
Human Rights in Africa
Bonny Ibhawoh’s (2018) “Human Rights in Africa” is a long overdue contribution to the human rights discourse. This is not only a critical assessment of the dominant narrative about the origins of human rights as known today, but also a call for revival of knowing histories that are not well known, prioritized or taught. The […]
Tags: #Africa #History #Human Rights #Vernacularization #Vernacularizing
Human Rights and the Food Sovereignty Movement
Priscilla Claeys’s “Human Rights and the Food Sovereignty Movement: Reclaiming Control” (2015) had some high level support and praise (Jun Borras, Olivier De Schutter, etc). The beginning of the abstract reads: “Our global food system is undergoing rapid change. Since the global food crisis of 2007-2008, a range of new issues have come to public […]
Tags: #Food Security #Food Sovereignty #Human Rights #La Via Campesina #Legal Advocacy
Pathologies of Power
Paul Farmer’s (2005) “Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor” is a “physician-anthropologist’s effort to reveal the ways in which the most basic right – the right to survive – is trampled in an age of great affluence” (p. 6). However, Farmer covers much more than the right to […]
Tags: #Anthropology #Human Rights #Paul Farmer #Power #Social Justice
Post-doc: Migration and the humanities (Harvard)
The Mahindra Humanities Center invites applications for one-year postdoctoral fellowships in connection with the Center’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation seminar on the topic of migration and the humanities. Migration plays as critical a role in the moral imagination of the humanities as it does in shaping the activist vision of humanitarianism and human rights. Too […]
Tags: #Human Rights #Humanities #Migration #Morals #Representation
Funded PhD: Human Rights
The Department of Anthropology at UCL is seeking applications for an MPhil/PhD candidate fully funded by The Sigrid Rausing Trust, to commence in the academic session 2017/18. The Sigrid Rausing Trust is a UK grant-making foundation, founded in 1995 by Sigrid Rausing to support human rights globally. In conjunction with potential supervisors, the successful applicant will be expected […]
Tags: #Anthropology #Human Rights
Postdoc: Migration & the Humanities (Harvard)
The Mahindra Humanities Center invites applications for one-year postdoctoral fellowships in connection with the Center’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation seminar on the topic of migration and the humanities. The current refugee crisis in Europe and the Middle East has made it clear that migration plays as critical a role in the moral imagination of the […]
Tags: #Harvard #Human Rights #Humanities #Migration #Refugee Crisis
New Publication: Land Grabbing & Human Rights
Cochrane, L. (2016) Land Grabbing. In Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics, 2nd Edition, edited by P. Thompson and D. Kaplan. Introduction: The application of force to coerce individuals to illegally give up their land or the otherwise illegal dispossession of land, a process known as “land grabbing,” is a violation of human rights – […]
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Logan Cochrane
Associate Professor at HBKU in the College of Public Policy. He is an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and an Adjunct Professor at Hawassa University (Institute for Policy and Development Research). Over the last fifteen years, he has worked in Afghanistan, Benin, Burundi, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Logan acts as a consultant for governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations, seeking to create bridges between research and practice.
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