1st Edition
Rights, Cultures, Subjects and Citizens
1. Introduction: Rights, Cultures, Subjects and Citizens Susanne Brandtstädter, University of Oslo, Norway, Peter Wade, University of Manchester, UK, Kath Woodward, Open University, UK
2. Resistencia para que? Territory, Autonomy and Neoliberal Entanglements in the ‘Empty Spaces` of Central America Charles R. Hale, University of Austin, Texas, USA
3. Localized Neoliberalism, Multiculturalism and Global Religion: Exploring the Agency of Migrants and City Boosters Nina Glick-Schiller, University of Manchester, UK
4. ‘Emancipation or Regulation’? Law, Globalization and Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in Post-War Guatemala Rachel Sieder, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Mexico
5. The Law Cuts Both Ways: Rural Legal Activism and Citizenship Struggles in Neosocialist China Susanne Brandtstädter, University of Oslo, Norway
6. Subjectification and Education for Quality in China Andrew B. Kipnis Australian National University, Australia
Biography
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).
Peter Wade is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester, UK. He works on race and ethnicity - and their articulations with gender - in Latin America and on ideas of race, nature and culture generally. His recent work is on race and genomic science in Latin America. Previous publications include Race and Sex in Latin America (2009).
Kath Woodward is Professor of Sociology at the Open University, UK. She works on works on diversity, mobilities and inequalities, especially in relation to sex gender and embodied practices and the relationship between virtual and material forms of inequality, most recently in the field of sport. Previous publications include Planet Sport (2012).
