Sumários

Lecture 9: Intersections: Development, Environment, Climate Crisis

5 Novembro 2025, 11:00 • Antonio Maria Pusceddu

This class addresses the relationship between development, environment and inequalities, touching upon the climate crises and the anthropological debate on sustainability.

Readings:

1.     Chancel, L., Piketty, T., Saez, E., Zucman, G. et al. World Inequality Report 2022, World Inequality Lab wir2022.wid.world  (Chapter 6 – Global Carbon Inequality https://wir2022.wid.world/chapter-6/)

2.     Brightman, M., Lewis, J. (2017). Introduction: The Anthropology of Sustainability: Beyond Development and Progress. In: Brightman, M., Lewis, J. (eds) The Anthropology of Sustainability. Palgrave Studies in Anthropology of Sustainability. Palgrave Macmillan

3.     Isenhour, Cindy (2017) Taking responsibility for Climate Change: On human adaptation, sustainable consumption, and environmental governance. In Helen Kopnina and Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet (eds) Routledge Handbook of Environmental Anthropology. London: Routledge, pp. 230-241.

Lecture 8 Human Rights 2: Debate

31 Outubro 2025, 13:00 • Ruy Jesus de Llera Blanes

Topics: Continuation of the debate concerning development and human rights, through a specific focus on the problem of FGM.
Reading: Bello (1997)

Lecture 8 Human Rights 2: Debate

31 Outubro 2025, 09:30 • Ruy Jesus de Llera Blanes

Topics: Continuation of the debate concerning development and human rights, through a specific focus on the problem of FGM.
Reading: Bello (1997)

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.