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Palaces of Hope : The Anthropology of Global Organizations.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (350 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781108111874
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 341.2
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Contents:
Cover -- Half-title page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Heart of Darkness: An Exploration of the WTO -- 3 Horseshoe and Catwalk: Power, Complexity, and Consensus-Making in the United Nations Security Council -- 4 A Kaleidoscopic Institutional Form: Expertise and Transformation in the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues -- 5 The 'Public' Character of the Universal Periodic Review: Contested Concept and Methodological Challenge -- 6 Meeting "the World" at the Palais Wilson: Embodied Universalism at the UN Human Rights Committee -- 7 Expertise and Quantification in Global Institutions -- 8 From Boardrooms to Field Programs: Humanitarianism and International Development in Southern Africa -- 9 Global Village Courts: International Organizations and the Bureaucratization of Rural Justice Systems in the Global South -- 10 Contrasting Values of Forests and Ice in the Making of a Global Climate Agreement -- 11 The Best of the Best: Positing, Measuring and Sensing Value in the UNESCO World Heritage Arena -- 12 Propaganda on Trial: Structural Fragility and the Epistemology of International Legal Institutions -- 13 The Anthropology by Organizations: Legal Knowledge and the UN's Ethnological Imagination -- Index.
Summary: This volume assembles in one place the work of scholars who are making key contributions to the anthropological approach to the UN, other global organizations and international law more broadly. This emerging literature offers new perspectives on topics of timeless interest: bureaucracy, international law, advocacy, and, ultimately, justice.
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Cover -- Half-title page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Heart of Darkness: An Exploration of the WTO -- 3 Horseshoe and Catwalk: Power, Complexity, and Consensus-Making in the United Nations Security Council -- 4 A Kaleidoscopic Institutional Form: Expertise and Transformation in the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues -- 5 The 'Public' Character of the Universal Periodic Review: Contested Concept and Methodological Challenge -- 6 Meeting "the World" at the Palais Wilson: Embodied Universalism at the UN Human Rights Committee -- 7 Expertise and Quantification in Global Institutions -- 8 From Boardrooms to Field Programs: Humanitarianism and International Development in Southern Africa -- 9 Global Village Courts: International Organizations and the Bureaucratization of Rural Justice Systems in the Global South -- 10 Contrasting Values of Forests and Ice in the Making of a Global Climate Agreement -- 11 The Best of the Best: Positing, Measuring and Sensing Value in the UNESCO World Heritage Arena -- 12 Propaganda on Trial: Structural Fragility and the Epistemology of International Legal Institutions -- 13 The Anthropology by Organizations: Legal Knowledge and the UN's Ethnological Imagination -- Index.

This volume assembles in one place the work of scholars who are making key contributions to the anthropological approach to the UN, other global organizations and international law more broadly. This emerging literature offers new perspectives on topics of timeless interest: bureaucracy, international law, advocacy, and, ultimately, justice.

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