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Lecture 8 Human Rights 2: Debate
31 Outubro 2025, 13:00 • Ruy Jesus de Llera Blanes
Lecture 8 Human Rights 2: Debate
31 Outubro 2025, 09:30 • Ruy Jesus de Llera Blanes
Lecture 7: Intersections: development and Human Rights 1
29 Outubro 2025, 14:30 • Ruy Jesus de Llera Blanes
Summary: This class will explore the complex relationship between development and human rights, while also exploring anthropology's difficult relationship with the field of human rights, and the progressive intersection of the human rights agenda with that of development.
Readings:
Freeman, M. 2002. “Anthropology and the Democratisation of Human Rights.” The International Journal of Human Rights 6 (3): 37–54.
Riles, Annelise. 2006. “Anthropology, Human Rights, and Legal Knowledge: Culture in the Iron Cage.” American Anthropologist 108 (1): 52–65.
Uvin, Peter. 2007. “From the Right to Development to the Rights-Based Approach: How ‘Human Rights’ Entered Development.” Development in Practice 17 (4–5): 597–606.
Lecture 7: Intersections: development and Human Rights 1
29 Outubro 2025, 11:00 • Ruy Jesus de Llera Blanes
Summary: This class will explore the complex relationship between development and human rights, while also exploring anthropology's difficult relationship with the field of human rights, and the progressive intersection of the human rights agenda with that of development.
Readings:
Freeman, M. 2002. “Anthropology and the Democratisation of Human Rights.” The International Journal of Human Rights 6 (3): 37–54.
Riles, Annelise. 2006. “Anthropology, Human Rights, and Legal Knowledge: Culture in the Iron Cage.” American Anthropologist 108 (1): 52–65.
Uvin, Peter. 2007. “From the Right to Development to the Rights-Based Approach: How ‘Human Rights’ Entered Development.” Development in Practice 17 (4–5): 597–606.
Lecture 6. Anthropology, Development and Health, part 2
10 Outubro 2025, 13:00 • Ruy Jesus de Llera Blanes
Summary: Continuation of the debate from the previous lecture. Focus on COVID-19 epidemics/pandemics and Angola.
Readings:
Farmer, Paul. 2006. “Introduction”. In AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame. Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, pp. 1-16.
Feierman, S., A. Kleinman, K. Stewart, P. Farmer, and V. Das. 2010. “Anthropology, Knowledge-Flows and Global Health.” Global Public Health 5 (2): 122–28.
Haricharan, Hanne Jensen. 2008. “Anthropologist to Activist: Paul Farmer’s Changing Perspectives on Cultural Difference and Human Rights.” Anthropology Southern Africa 31 (1–2): 30–38.