 |
 |
|
 |
 |
|
 |
|
"No one had wanted me to truly think before, and TASP
came not politely asking, but demanding that I read and analyze,
present my view and then defend it."
- Meredith Durkin,
student
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
CORNELL II PROGRAM
|
Human Rights, Cultural Rights & Economic Rights: Views from the “Global South”
Telluride House, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
June 29-August 9, 2008
Faculty: Johanna Schoss, and Marina Welker, both of the Department of Anthropology, Cornell University
Factotum: Jessica Dragonetti, University of Chicago
Globalization is not only having an impact on the economic lives of peoples
across the world, but it is also reshaping the very ways in which people understand their own identity and agency.
Processes of democratization and a global emphasis on human rights have altered the ways that people understand what it means
to be a “member” of a global world.
Using cases from the “Global South”(e.g., Africa, Latin America, and Asia), this seminar will examine critical issues
of individual and group claims to social, political, economic, and environmental rights. The seminar will then juxtapose
these two cases to contemporary circumstances in the United States in an effort to blur the distinctions between
“Western”/“non-Western” or “developed”/“less-developed” countries. We will examine major international human
rights documents, including the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the legal principles and
international agencies involved in rights determinations and oversight. We will situate human rights within the
broader context of geopolitical forces and the response of local communities to these forces.
Specific themes the seminar will address include economic
and environmental rights, models of social justice, structural violence, transitional justice, truth commissons
and reconciliation processes, national debt as it relates to human rights claims, and whether corporate
philanthropy and corporate responsibility programs are true responses to rights claims.
|
|
|
|
|
|
