1. Human Rights in an Anthropological Key Mark Goodale Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology University of Lausanne Series Editor Stanford Studies in Human Rights January 3, 2017

2. Plan for presentation: (1) History (2) Key themes (3) Methodologies (4) Most recent findings and contributions (5) Implications for “human rights under pressure”

3. (1) History --pre-history: UNESCO survey, 1947 and – 1972: Cold War, anti-colonialism, political economy, symbolic or materialist – 1999: End of Cold War, rise of identity politics, formal repudiation of “Statement on Human Rights,” adoption of “Declaration on Anthropology and Human Rights” – 2007: The three C’s--case studies, conferences, collections (The Practice of Human Rights, Cambridge, 2007) – present: Research at the limits of human rights

4. (2) Key themes --Regrounding the idea of human rights --Human rights and the problem of the state --Politics and the practice of human rights --Confronting pathologies of power --Identity in the age of human rights --The contours of juridification

5. (3) Methodologies --proto-methodological (Herkovits and Elkin + Levi-Strauss et al.) -- “emancipatory cultural politics” --banalization through ethnography --critical and normative approaches

6. (4) Most recent findings and contributions --Human rights and its networks --Moral creativity in the practice of human rights --The politics of aspiration and the utopian promises of human rights --(Human) rights and capitalist accumulation

7. (5) Implications for “human rights under pressure” “Age of Human Rights” (Kofi Annan) --End of liminal period of post-Cold War (2001? 2003? 2008? Brexit? Trump?) -- “Endtimes” (Hopgood) of human rights, “backlash” (Venice Academy 2016), “rise and fall” (Allen) --Conceptual? Political? Important to identity causes and drivers of historical shifts --rebuilding human rights through “para-normativity” (de-juridified, pluralist, connotative power)