Mobilizing Vulnerability: New Directions in Transnational Feminist Studies and Human Rights

2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. vii-xviii ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy S. Hesford ◽  
Rachel A. Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Feminist Studies ◽  
New Directions

scholarly journals The Struggle Against Torture: Challenges, Assumptions and New Directions

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 324-333
Author(s):  
Tobias Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Multiple Forms ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
Current State ◽  
New Directions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Emerging Themes ◽  
Short Essay ◽  
Forms Of Violence

Abstract This short essay offers a broad and necessarily incomplete review of the current state of the human rights struggle against torture and ill-treatment. It sketches four widespread assumptions in that struggle: 1) that torture is an issue of detention and interrogation; 2) that political or security detainees are archetypal victims of torture; 3) that legal reform is one of the best ways to fight torture; and 4) that human rights monitoring helps to stamp out violence. These four assumptions have all played an important role in the history of the human rights fight against torture, but also resulted in limitations in terms of the interventions that are used, the forms of violence that human rights practitioners respond to, and the types of survivors they seek to protect. Taken together, these four assumptions have created challenges for the human rights community in confronting the multiple forms of torture rooted in the deep and widespread inequality experienced by many poor and marginalized groups. The essay ends by pointing to some emerging themes in the fight against torture, such as a focus on inequality, extra-custodial violence, and the role of corruption.

scholarly journals Studying Consumption Behaviour through Multiple Lenses: An Overview of Consumer Culture Theory

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annamma Joy ◽  
Eric Ping Hung Li
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Consumer Behaviour ◽  
Feminist Studies ◽  
Culture Theory ◽  
Critical Studies ◽  
Consumer Identity ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Theoretical Innovation ◽  
Interpretive Strategies ◽  
Consumer Culture Theory

Since Miller’s (1995) ground-breaking directive to the anthropology community to research consumption within the context of production, CCT has come of age, offering distinctive insights into the complexities of consumer behaviour. CCT positions itself at the nexus of disciplines as varied as anthropology, sociology, media studies, critical studies, and feminist studies; overlapping foci bring theoretical innovation to studies of human behaviours in the marketplace. In this paper, we provide asynthesis of CCT research since its inception, along with more recent publications. We follow the four thematic domains of research as devised by Arnould and Thompson (2005): consumer identity projects, marketplace cultures, the socio-historic patterning of consumption, and mass-mediated marketplace ideologies and consumers’ interpretive strategies. Additionally, we investigate new directions for future connections between CCT research and anthropology.

Human Rights in the States: New Directions in Constitutional Policymaking

1990 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 182
Author(s):  
John Kincaid ◽  
Stanley H. Friedelbaum
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
New Directions

Reproductive and Maternal Health in Anthropology

Anthropology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Maternal Health ◽  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Feminist Studies ◽  
Reproductive Choice ◽  
New Directions ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Maternal Health Policy

In anthropology, the subject of maternal health is diffused within the broader areas of the anthropology of reproduction, fertility, and reproductive health. As a topic it is constituted by work at the intersections of anthropology, public health, feminist studies (covering topics on reproductive choice and autonomy, for instance), and development studies (with its focus on the issues of maternal and infant mortality). The citations presented here are grouped into six topic categories as linked to maternal health, each with further subtopics, on childbirth and maternal/reproductive health, fertility and infertility in maternal health, reproductive technologies and maternal health, family planning and maternal health, abortion, and maternal-health policy and human rights. The topics have been selected on the basis of historical work in these areas and in terms of new directions presented by more-recent work. Wherever possible, indigenous anthropological expertise stemming from local authors in the topic areas has been included.

Writing the History of African Christianity: Reflections of an Editor

2006 ◽  
Vol 36 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 379-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Maxwell
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Relative Significance ◽  
African Christianity ◽  
Aids Pandemic ◽  
New Directions ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Church ◽  
Colonial Science ◽  
Mission Churches

AbstractThis article reviews the literature on African Christian Studies from the 1990s onwards and suggests new directions for research. The field has drawn great impetus from a series of historical/anthropological debates over conversion and the relative significance of missionary imperial hegemony and African agency. But there is a great need for work on twentieth-century missionaries and their contribution to colonial science. And there are too few studies of African leaders within mission churches, particularly in the era of decolonisation. Research on Pentecostalism has flourished but needs to be historicised. New areas for research are: African Christian diaspora and its impact on host communities; the impact of development and human rights agendas on the church; the effects of the AIDS pandemic. As the African Church becomes a more prominent part of World Christianity, scholars need to assess how African moral sensibilities are recasting the theology and politics of the historic mission churches.

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