29731
Seminar
WiSe 17/18: Anthropology of Human Rights and Humanitarianism
Deniz Yonucu
Comments
This course examines anthropology’s engagements with the questions of social justice and human rights and explores the effects of political claims (i.e. protection, military intervention, humanitarian aid and responsibility to protect) that are made through the language and institutions of human rights. Focusing on the critical anthropological approaches to human rights, the course provides an overview of the human rights discourses and practices and of anthropologists’ engagement with these discourses and practices. As the numbers of anthropological studies of humanitarianism are growing, anthropology of humanitarianism is becoming a subdiscipline in the field. Drawing on close readings of ethnographic studies of humanitarianism and humanitarian aid, the course will also problematize the complex and constitutive relationship between humanitarianism, violence and sovereignty.
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Suggested reading
Major Texts:
- Goodale, Mark, ed. Human rights: An anthropological reader. John Wiley & Sons, 2009. (Selected Articles)
- Weizman, Eyal. The least of all possible evils: Humanitarian violence from Arendt to Gaza. Verso Books, 2011. (Selected Chapters) close
- Goodale, Mark, ed. Human rights: An anthropological reader. John Wiley & Sons, 2009. (Selected Articles)
- Weizman, Eyal. The least of all possible evils: Humanitarian violence from Arendt to Gaza. Verso Books, 2011. (Selected Chapters) close
15 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Tue, 2017-10-17 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2017-10-24 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2017-11-07 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2017-11-14 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2017-11-21 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2017-11-28 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2017-12-05 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2017-12-12 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2017-12-19 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2018-01-09 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2018-01-16 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2018-01-23 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2018-01-30 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2018-02-06 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2018-02-13 10:00 - 12:00