Title: HUMAN RIGHTS, ENVIRONMENT, DEVELOPMENT - ANTHROPOLOGY 476/876:
Abstract: The aim of this course (Human Rights, Environment, and Development, Anthropology
476/876) is to ground students in anthropological approaches to human rights and sustainable
development. It will address issues that are of significance in the area of international human
rights, paying specific attention to issues such as (1) universalism vs cultural relativism, (2)
Western and non-Western perspectives on human rights, (3) individual rights and collective
(group) rights, (4) the debates over civil and political rights and social, economic, and cultural
rights; (5) intellectual property rights and indigenous knowledge systems, (6) planetary
(environmental) rights, (7) indigenous peoples' rights and minority group rights, (8) women's
rights, (9) children's rights, and (10) environmental justices. Particular attention will be paid to
the rights to food, water, environmental protection, and to development.
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-04-26
Language: en
Type: article
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