|
< back
|
Printer Version 
|
|
|
|
Class Detail:
|
FA 2012
Afroamerican & African Studies
AAS
103
-
First Year Social Science Seminar
Section
003
Transnational Human Rights Formations
|
|
Credits:
|
3
|
|
Requirements & Distribution:
|
SS
|
|
Other:
|
FYSem
|
|
Waitlist Capacity:
|
99
|
|
Consent:
|
With permission of instructor.
|
|
Advisory Prerequisites:
|
Enrollment restricted to first-year students, including those with sophomore standing.
|
|
Other Course Info:
|
(Cross-Area Courses). May not be included in a concentration plan.
|
|
Repeatability:
|
May not be repeated for credit.
|
|
Primary Instructor:
|
Adunbi,Omolade
|
|
(real time availability for all sections)
|
|
|
|
This course explores international human rights theory and practice through a consideration of three key concepts: Transnationalism, ethnic nationalism, and the formation of new sovereignties. Each of the central concepts will be considered in depth and linked to the emerging field of transnational governmentalities and the growing interest in Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in shaping local and global practices. The central goal is to use an interdisciplinary approach to human rights combining legal scholarship, political theory, and social science research — to engage some of the most pressing issues regarding the application and enforcement of human rights. We will raise key philosophical and analytical questions regarding the interconnections between transnational formations and local practices in an attempt to ask how the idea of human rights operates as a moral limit on how human beings may live their lives; and how these standards are shaped by the logics that undermine the choices we make. Course Requirements: No data submitted Intended Audience: No data submitted Class Format: No data submitted
|
|
|
Course Syllabi
Syllabi are available to current LSA students. IMPORTANT: These syllabi are provided to give students a general idea about the courses, as offered by LSA departments and programs in prior academic terms. The syllabi do not necessarily reflect the assignments, sequence of course materials, and/or course expectations that the faculty and departments/programs have for these same courses in the current and/or future terms.
Search for Syllabus
|
|
|
|
Textbooks/Other Materials (data maintained by department in Wolverine Access)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN: 978-0-521-717
|
Fictions of Justice: The International Criminal Court and the challenges of legal pluralism in Africa,, Author: Kamari Clarke, Publisher: Cambridge University Press 2009
|
|
Required
|
|
|
|
ISBN: 9780393320435
|
The gift : the form and reason for exchange in archaic societies, Author: Marcel Mauss ; translated by W.D. Halls ; foreword by Mary Douglas., Publisher: W. W. Norton 1990
|
|
Required
|
|
|
|
ISBN: 9780812220490
|
Human Rights: A Political and Cultural Crtitique, Author: Makau Mutua, Publisher: University of Pensylvania Press 2002
|
|
Required
|
|
|
|
ISBN: 9780226520742
|
Human rights and gender violence : translating international law into local justice, Author: Sally Engle Merry., Publisher: University of Chicago Press [Nachdr.]. 2006
|
|
Required
|
|
|
|
ISBN: 9780691102801
|
When victims become killers : colonialism, nativism, and the genocide in Rwanda, Author: Mahmood Mamdani., Publisher: Princeton University Press 1st paperb 2002
|
|
Required
|
|
|
|