LEADER 04085nam 22005532 450 001 9910159459503321 005 20170303104112.0 010 $a1-108-10574-2 010 $a1-108-10983-7 010 $a1-108-11051-7 010 $a1-107-56636-3 010 $a1-316-41219-9 010 $a1-108-11119-X 010 $a1-108-11187-4 010 $a1-108-11459-8 035 $a(CKB)3710000001008885 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781316412190 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4783961 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001008885 100 $a20150317d2017|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aPalaces of hope $ethe anthropology of global organizations /$fedited by Ronald Niezen, Maria Sapignoli$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (xiv, 329 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aCambridge studies in law and society 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Feb 2017). 311 $a1-107-12749-1 311 $a1-108-11391-5 327 $aMachine generated contents note: 1. Introduction Ronald Niezen and Maria Sapignoli; 2. Heart of darkness: an exploration of the WTO Marc Abeles; 3. Horseshoe and catwalk: power, complexity and consensus-making in the United Nations Security Council Niels Nagelhus Schia; 4. A kaleidoscopic institutional form: expertise and transformation in the permanent forum on indigenous issues Maria Sapignoli; 5. The 'public' character of the Universal Periodic Review: contested concept and methodological challenge Jane K. Cowan and Julie Billaud; 6. Meeting 'the world' at the Palais Wilson: embodied universalism at the UN Human Rights Committee Miia Halme-Tuomisaari; 7. Expertise and quantification in global institutions Sally Engle Merry; 8. From boardrooms to field programs: humanitarianism and international development in Southern Africa Robert K. Hitchcock; 9. Global village courts: international organizations and the bureaucratization of rural justice systems in the Global South Tobias Berger; 10. Contrasting values of forests and ice in the making of a global climate agreement Noor Johnson and David Rojas; 11. The best of the best: positing, measuring and sensing value in the UNESCO World Heritage Arena Christoph Brumann; 12. Propaganda on trial: structural fragility and the epistemology of international legal institutions Richard Ashby Wilson; 13. The anthropology by organizations: legal knowledge and the UN's ethnological imagination Ronald Niezen; Index. 330 $aThis volume assembles in one place the work of scholars who are making key contributions to a new approach to the United Nations, and to global organizations and international law more generally. Anthropology has in recent years taken on global organizations as a legitimate source of its subject matter. The research that is being done in this field gives a human face to these world-reforming institutions. Palaces of Hope demonstrates that these institutions are not monolithic or uniform, even though loosely connected by a common organizational network. They vary above all in their powers and forms of public engagement. Yet there are common threads that run through the studies included here: the actions of global institutions in practice, everyday forms of hope and their frustration, and the will to improve confronted with the realities of nationalism, neoliberalism, and the structures of international power. 410 0$aCambridge studies in law and society. 606 $aLaw and anthropology 606 $aInternational organizations 615 0$aLaw and anthropology. 615 0$aInternational organizations. 676 $a341.2 686 $aLAW000000$2bisacsh 702 $aNiezen$b Ronald 702 $aSapignoli$b Maria 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910159459503321 996 $aPalaces of hope$92583104 997 $aUNINA