Author(s): Richard Wilson
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 272
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of contributors......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 11
Introduction: the social life of rights......Page 12
Representing the common good: the limits of legal language......Page 27
Two approaches to rights and religion in contemporary France......Page 44
This turbulent priest: contesting religious rights and the state in the Tibetan Shugden controversy......Page 65
Legal/illegal counterpoints: subjecthood and subjectivity in an unrecognized state......Page 82
Anthropologists as expert witnesses: political asylum cases involving Sri Lankan Tamils......Page 104
Voices from the margins: knowledge and interpellation in Israeli human rights protests......Page 129
The uncertain political limits of cultural claims: minority rights politics in south-east Europe......Page 151
Using rights to measure wrongs: a case study of method and moral in the work of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission......Page 174
Reproduction, health, rights: connections and disconnections......Page 194
Rights and the poor......Page 220
The rights of being human......Page 240
Index......Page 262
