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Mark Goodale, Reinventing Human Rights

Stanford University Press, 2022, Pp. 232, ISBN: 978-1-503-63101-4

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  1. On legal anthropology as a critical perspective for negotiating between conflicting beliefs and values, see Mark Goodale, Anthropology and Law: A Critical Introduction (New York University Press 2017). On the present condition of international and transnational human rights Goodale cites, among others, Stephen Hopgood, Keepers of the Flame: Understanding Amnesty International (Cornell University Press 2006); Stephen Hopgood, The Endtimes of Human Rights (Cornell University Press 2013); Kathryn Sikkink, Evidence for Hope: Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century (Princeton University Press 2017); Rhoda E Howard-Hassmann, In Defense of Universal Human Rights (Polity Press 2018); Hurst Hannum, Rescuing Human Rights: A Radicallly Moderate Approach (Cambridge University Press 2019).

  2. (W W Norton & Company 2007).

  3. Mark Goodale (ed), Letters to the Contrary: A Curated History of the UNESCO Human Rights Survey (Stanford University Press 2018).

  4. Mark Goodale, Dilemmas of Modernity: Bolivian Encounters with Law and Liberalism (Stanford University Press 2008); Mark Goodale, A Revolution in Fragments: Traversing Scales of Justice, Ideology, and Practice in Bolivia (Duke University Press 2019).

  5. For example, Samuel Moyn, Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World (Harvard University Press 2018).

  6. Goodale also refers specifically (pp. 27–32) to Thomas Piketty’s work, including Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Belknap 2013) in claiming that hypercapitalism de-links international human rights from amelioration of economic exploitation and social inequality.

  7. Although he cites Eric D Weitz, A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States (Princeton University Press 2019), he does not take the opportunity here to explore the dynamic between the nation-state as a community in which human rights are secured and also as an arena in which rights are denied to internal others (those deemed intruders in the national community).

  8. For example, the 1980 ‘Brandt Report’ named after former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, and following a prompt by World Bank President Robert McNamara. Brandt Commission, Independent Commission on International Development Issues [ICIDI] Report (1980), published as North-South: A Programme for Survival (Pan Books/MIT Press 1980).

  9. In addition to Goodale, Dilemmas of Modernity (n 4), see Shannon Speed, Rights in Rebellion: Indigenous Struggle and Human Rights in Chiapas (Stanford University Press 2008). On the method of human rights practice as an ethnographic category, and for case studies, see Mark Goodale and Sally Engle Merry (eds), The Practice of Human Rights: Tracking Law between the Global and the Local (Cambridge University Press 2007).

  10. See Goodale’s discussion of Bolivian buen vivir as a keystone value on pp. 120–125, 195. I translate buen as ‘right’ rather than ‘good’ to convey the sense of ethically correct or proper life.

  11. UN General Assembly, Resolution A/RES/48/134 (adopted 4 March 1994 [on the report of the Third Committee (A/48/632/Add.2)]).

  12. Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action (adopted 25 June 1993).

  13. Leon Sullivan, ‘Statement of Principles of U.S. Firms with Affiliates in the Republic of South Africa’ (1977), as cited in Brian J F Clark, ‘United States Labor Practices in South Africa: Will A Mandatory Fair Employment Code Succeed Where the Sullivan Principles Have Failed?’ (1983) 7(2) Fordham International Law Journal 358, 360; on the original applications of the Sullivan Principles and their aftermath, see Zeb Larson, ‘The Sullivan Principles: South Africa, Apartheid, and Globalization’ (2020) 44(3) Diplomatic History 479.

  14. Sikkink, Evidence for Hope (n 1).

  15. Sally Engle Merry, Human Rights and Gender Violence: Translating International Law into Local Justice (University of Chicago Press 2006).

  16. Thomas Risse, Domestic Politics and Norm Diffusion in International Relations (Taylor and Francis 2017).

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Leighton, D.P. Mark Goodale, Reinventing Human Rights. Jindal Global Law Review (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41020-024-00218-2

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