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Mark Goodale

Mark Goodale
Professeur ordinaire, Université de Lausanne
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Ph.D, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Mark Goodale is an anthropologist, sociolegal scholar, and social theorist. He currently conducts ethnographic research on revolution and the politics of disenchantment in Latin America (Bolivia) and writes theoretically about human rights as a key mode of contemporary world-making. For more information, please see Mark's website at mark-goodale.com.



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Continuation of steps in research process to prepare dissertation and implement published research. Builds on CONF 811 by examining qualitative...
Introduces major controversies and debates surrounding use of human rights theory and practice cross-culturally. After basic study of human rights...
Examines the role culture plays in genesis, structuring, and resolution of processes of conflict within and between...
Taken in last semester of master’s student course work. Assists in developing students’ own theories of conflict and conflict...
Introduces students to the philosophies behind social science research and the methods for conducting research in the field of conflict resolution...
Introduces field of conflict analysis and resolution. Examines definitions of conflict and diverse views of its...
Capstone course in which students reflect on what they have learned, integrating knowledge from course work and...
Examines selected topics relating to analysis or resolution of conflict. Topics vary but may include historical...
Covers deeply rooted, intractable, or protracted social conflicts around core issues of identity, including race,...
Introduces social science research methods at undergraduate level. Covers basic epistemology of social research,...
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May 29, 2013
In the 1980s and 1990s, neoliberal forms of governance largely dominated Latin American political and social life. Neoliberalism, Interrupted examines the recent and diverse proliferation of responses to neoliberalism's hegemony. In so doing, this vanguard...
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December 17, 2012
Since the end of the Cold War, there has been a dramatic expansion in both the international human rights system and the transnational networks of activists, development organizations, and monitoring agencies that partially reinforce it. Yet despite or perhaps...
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May 13, 2009
Surrendering to Utopia is a critical and wide-ranging study of anthropology's contributions to human rights. Providing a unique window into the underlying political and intellectual currents that have shaped human rights in the postwar period, this ambitious work...
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2009
Book Description Mirrors of Justice is a groundbreaking study of the meanings of and possibilities for justice in the contemporary world. The book brings together a group of both prominent and emerging scholars to reconsider the relationships between justice,...
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November 10, 2008
This innovative reader brings together key works that demonstrate the important and unique contributions anthropologists have made to the understanding and practice of human rights over the last 60 years. Draws on a range of intellectual and methodological...
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November 03, 2008
Dilemmas of Modernity provides an innovative approach to the study of contemporary Bolivia, moving telescopically between social, political, legal, and discursive analyses, and drawing from a range of disciplinary traditions. Based on a decade of research, it...
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May 27, 2008
This chapter examines the anthropological study of law in Latin America. My goal here is threefold. First, I describe a key insight from anthropology about the way law and its normative cousins are constituted in Latin America by locating these processes within...
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August 27, 2007
Human rights are now the dominant approach to social justice globally. But how do human rights work? What do they do? Drawing on anthropological studies of human rights work from around the world, this book examines human rights in practice. It shows how groups...
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June 01, 2006
Some 17 years after the end of the cold war, the international and transnational human rights regimes that emerged in the wake of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights are at a crossroads. On the one hand, the political openings created by the end of the...
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March 01, 2006
This article represents a search for a different analytical language through which anthropology can engage with human rights. This effort is intended to contribute to what is an expanding range of ways in which anthropologists conceptualize, advocate for, and...
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March 01, 2006
In this "In Focus" introduction, I begin by offering an overview of anthropology's engagements with human rights following the American Anthropological Association's (AAA) 1947 "Statement on Human Rights." After offering a rereading of the...
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December 01, 2005
This article explores the idea that law has become newly constitutive in a postmodern transnational system in which modernity's classic polarities have become obscured, the discipline of late capitalism has become widely if partially internalized outside of...
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December 06, 2002
Practicing Ethnography in Law brings together a selection of top scholars in legal anthropology, social sciences, and law to delineate the state of the art in ethnographic research strategies. Each of these original essays addresses a particular set of analytical...
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December 01, 1997
The study consisted of four gender-segregated focus groups in which farm couples were asked to describe an actual and a hypothetical farm decision. We used this study to triangulate the findings of a survey of six hundred couples on farm decision making. We also...
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June 08, 2009
Mason anthropologist Mark Goodale at a political rally in La Paz, Bolivia, with a condor mascot. Anthropologist
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May 01, 2009
Surrendering to UtopiaStanford University Press "Surrendering to Utopia is a critical and wide-ranging study
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March 18, 2009
Interview by Jeremy Rose on Sunday Morning with Chris Laidlaw, Radio New Zealand.
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March 13, 2009
Excerpt:For a swath of the population in Bolivia in particular and the region more generally, the U.S. government is,
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March 08, 2009
On January 25th Bolivia became the latest of ten Latin American countries to approve new constitutions since the 1980s
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November 01, 2008
Much of Latin America is in the midst of a period of profound transition and uncertainty. The end of the Cold War
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September 01, 2008
Dilemmas of ModernityStanford University PressBook DescriptionDilemmas of Modernity provides an innovative approach to
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July 17, 2007
Justice in Afghanistan – Feature Last evening, about fifty Canadian soldiers stepped off of a Hercules aircraft
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Frontiers Of Identity: Transnational Displacement, Clandestinity And Conflict In The Ecuadorian-Colombian Bordelands And Inner Cities In EcuadorMonday, April 21st1:00pm - 4:00pmConference Room 5183 Ruth Adriana SalcedoDissertation Director: Dr. Mark GoodaleAbstract:The arrival of approximately
April 21, 2014
Law's Labor's Lost with Mark Goodale, George Mason University
October 17, 2013
Please join S-CAR for an evening to recognize Sara Cobb and Mark Goodale for their recent books. Reception will begin at 6:00pm, followed by a discussion of each of the books at 6:30pm.  Mark Goodale is an anthropol
September 04, 2013
This dissertation starts from an interest in protracted environmental conflict in the United States and takes the stance with respect to environmental conflict (1) that a threat to a resource very quickly becomes experienced as a threat to the ways of life dependent upon that resource, and (2) that
April 26, 2012
The CIGA Seminar Series and the University Honors Program Present ∞
November 15, 2010
Join us for a film showing of "Bastards of Utopia" a film by Maple Razsa and Pacho Velez followed by Q & A and discussion with filmmaker Dr. Maple Razsa
September 30, 2010
This study seeks to investigate to what extent international human rights advocates and conflict resolvers are skilled and equipped to deal with situations such as the state-run gender violence which has led to a protracted conflict in a country like Iran. This project aims to first contextualize
July 22, 2010
Hosted by CRASSH (Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities), University of Cambridge Keynote/Invited speakers: Julio Faundez, University of Warwick, U.K. Daniel Goldstein, Rutgers University, U.S.A. Mark Goodale, George Mason University, U.S.A. Cesar Rodríguez-Garavito,
January 22, 2010
Professor Sally Merry is Director of the Program on Law and Society and Professor in the Department of Anthropology at New York University Her most recent publications include Gender Violence: A Cultural Perspective (Blackwell, 2008); The Practice of Human Rights: Tracking Law Between the Global
March 26, 2009
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