Beschreibung:
Susanne Brandtstädter is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo, Norway. Her research in China has focussed on gender and social relatedness, moral economies, modernity and peasant subjectivities, legal knowledge, notions of justice, social and political rights, and local responses to global capitalism. Previous publications include Chinese Kinship. New Anthropological Perspectives (2009).
Rights, Cultures, Subjects and Citizens questions the political logic of foregrounding cultural collectives in a world shaped by globalization and neoliberalization. This book was originally published as a special issue of Economy and Society.
1. Introduction: Rights, Cultures, Subjects and Citizens 2. Resistencia para que? Territory, Autonomy and Neoliberal Entanglements in the 'Empty Spaces` of Central America 3. Localized Neoliberalism, Multiculturalism and Global Religion: Exploring the Agency of Migrants and City Boosters 4. 'Emancipation or Regulation'? Law, Globalization and Indigenous Peoples' Rights in Post-War Guatemala 5. The Law Cuts Both Ways: Rural Legal Activism and Citizenship Struggles in Neosocialist China 6. Subjectification and Education for Quality in China