ANTHR 1188

FWS: Human Rights: International Law, Advocacy, and Activism

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2014-2015.

The investigations of this course will take us from the halls of the UN where human rights treaties are negotiated, to the offices of international non-governmental organizations (NGOs), to the work of grassroots human rights defenders. Though human rights are often presented as universal and politically neutral norms, we will find that a very different picture emerges when we pay attention to dynamics of power, culture, and gender. We will analyze legal scholarship, ethnographic texts, popular media, and human rights reports, to explore a range of pressing issues, including women's rights, indigenous rights, land rights, and business and human rights. Students will write papers analyzing course texts and films, and pursue a final project on a human rights case study of their choice.

When Offered Spring.

Satisfies Requirement First-Year Writing Seminar.

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