Culture and Rights after Culture and Rights

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ID2464072
AutoresJ K Cowan (0000-0003-3782-0443, University of Sussex, autor correspondente)
Ano2006
Volume108
Fascículo1
Páginas9-24
Data de publicação2006-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmerican Anthropologist (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0002-7294 • E-ISSN: 1548-1433
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1525/aa.2006.108.1.9
OpenAlexW2148915187
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas54
Referências citadas65

Building on a critical, theoretical approach outlined in Culture and Rights: Anthropological Perspectives (Cowan et al. 2001a), I posit rights processes as complex and contradictory: Both enabling and constraining, they produce new subjectivities and social relations and entail unintended consequences. To encourage interdisciplinary engagement on these themes, I explore selected texts that consider the relationship between culture and rights, addressing two literatures: (1) debates on culture, rights, and recognition in the context of multiculturalism among political philosophers and (2) an emerging literature by anthropologists, feminists, critical legal scholars, and engaged practitioners analyzing empirical cases. Although political philosophers elucidate ethical implications and clarify political projects, an outmoded arsenal of theoretical concepts of "culture,""society," and "the individual" has hampered their debates. When accounts are both theoretically informed and empirically grounded, contradictions, ambiguities, and impasses of culture and rights are more fully explored and the liberal model of rights and multiculturalism is more open to interrogation

Context (archaeology · Critical theory · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Human rights · Interrogation · Multiculturalism · Political culture · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Unintended consequences · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies