Rights, Cultures, Subjects and Citizens

ISBN-13: 9780415631273 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 152 str.

Susanne Brandtst Dter; Peter Wade; Kath Woodward

Opis

This book questions the political logic of foregrounding cultural collectives in a world shaped by globalization and neoliberalization. On the basis of case studies from China, Latin America, and North America, the contributors explore the links between culture, civility, and the politics of citizenship.Reproduction of Economy and Society, vol. 40, issue 2.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Rights, Cultures, Subjects and Citizens  2. Resistencia para que? Territory, Autonomy and Neoliberal Entanglements in the ‘Empty Spaces` of Central America  3. Localized Neoliberalism, Multiculturalism and Global Religion: Exploring the Agency of Migrants and City Boosters  4. ‘Emancipation or Regulation’? Law, Globalization and Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in Post-War Guatemala  5. The Law Cuts Both Ways: Rural Legal Activism and Citizenship Struggles in Neosocialist China  6. Subjectification and Education for Quality in China 

O autorze

Susanne Brandtstädter is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo, Norway. Her research in China has focussed on gender and social relatedness, moral economies, modernity and peasant subjectivities, legal knowledge, notions of justice, social and political rights, and local responses to global capitalism. Previous publications include Chinese Kinship. New Anthropological Perspectives (2009).

Peter Wade is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester, UK. He works on race and ethnicity - and their articulations with gender - in Latin America and on ideas of race, nature and culture generally. His recent work is on race and genomic science in Latin America. Previous publications include Race and Sex in Latin America (2009).

Kath Woodward is Professor of Sociology at the Open University, UK. She works on works on diversity, mobilities and inequalities, especially in relation to sex gender and embodied practices and the relationship between virtual and material forms of inequality, most recently in the field of sport. Previous publications include Planet Sport (2012).