Human Rights, Culture and Context

Richard Wilson has carried out extensive research on the relationship between political violence, religion and ethnicity in Guatemala. He is the author of Maya Resurgence in Guatemala: Q'egchi Experiences (1995, University of Oklahoma Press).

'By establishing a link between normative and empirical analysis, this book offers valuable insights into human rights discourse'

• AcknowledgementsNotes on contributors1. Introduction: Human Rights, Culture and Context by Richard A. Wilson, Sussex Univerisity2. Legal Pluralism and Transnational Culture: The Ka Ho'okolokolonui Kanaka Maoli Tribunal, Hawai'i, 1993 by Sally Engle Merry, Wellesley College3. Multiculturalism, Individualism and Human Rights: Romanticism, the Enlightenment and Lessons from Mauritius by Thomas Hylland Eriksen, University of Oslo4. Liberalism, Socio-economic Rights and the Politics of Identity: from Moral Economy to Indigenous Rights by John Gledhill, University College, London5. On Torture, or Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment by Talal Asad, New School, NYU6. Representing Human Rights Violations: Social Contexts and Subjectivities by Richard A. Wilson, Sussex University7. Universal and Sustainable Human Rights? Special Tribunals in Guatemala by Jenny Schirmer, Harvard University8. To Whom Should We Listen? Human Rights Activism in Two Guatemalan Land Disputes by David StollBibliographyIndex