A full list of published work can be found at my ResearchGate site.
In preparation:
“Vernacularization as Anthropological Ethics,” in Philip Alston (ed.), Publisher TBD.
Published:
2021 “From Human Welfare to Human Rights: Considering Socioeconomic Rights through the 1947-48 UNESCO Human Rights Survey,” in Steven Jensen and Charles Walton (eds.), Social Rights and the Politics of Obligation in History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Human Rights in History series).
2021 “Rights and Social Inclusion,” in Marie-Claire Foblets, M. Goodale, Maria Sapignoli, and Olaf Zenker (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Law and Anthropology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2021 “Introduction: Mapping the Future of Law and Anthropology,” (with Marie-Claire Foblets, Maria Sapignoli, and Olaf Zenker) in Marie-Claire Foblets, M. Goodale, Maria Sapignoli, and Olaf Zenker (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Law and Anthropology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2020 “The Misbegotten Monad: Anthropology, Human Rights, Belonging,” in Danielle Celermajer and Alexandre Lefebvre (eds.), The Subject of Human Rights. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
2020 “Culture, Genuine and Juridical,” Afterword to Brianne McGonigle Leyh and Julie Fraser (eds.), Intersections of Law and Culture at the International Criminal Court. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
2019 “Human Rights Beyond the Double Bind of Sovereignty,” in Bardo Fassbender and Knut Traisbach (eds.), The Limits of Rights. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2018 “Our Vernacular Futures,” Afterword to Tine Destrooper and Sally Engle Merry (eds.), Human Rights Transformation in Practice. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights).
2016 “Justice at the Limits of Law,” Conclusion to Sandra Brunnegger and Karen Faulk (eds.), A Sense of Justice: Legal Knowledge and Lived Experience in Latin America. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
2016 “Values Without Qualities: Pathos and Mythos in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” in Sophia McClennen and Alexandra Schultheis Moore (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights. London: Routledge.
2015 “Anthropology and Human Rights,” in Dominic Boyer and Ulf Hannerz (eds.), Anthropology Section, International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition. Oxford: Elsevier.
2013 “Anthropology and the Grounds of Human Rights,” in Dinah Shelton (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of International Human Rights Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2013 “Revolution and Retrenchment: Illuminating the Present in Latin America” (with Nancy Postero), in M. Goodale and Nancy Postero (eds.), Neoliberalism, Interrupted: Social Change and Contested Governance in Contemporary Latin America. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
2013 “Human Rights After the Post-Cold War,” introduction to M. Goodale (ed.), Human Rights at the Crossroads. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2012 “Human Rights and the Poetics of Moral Practice,” in Didier Fassin (ed.), A Companion to Moral Anthropology, Oxford: Blackwell. Blackwell Companions to Anthropology.
2012 “Human Rights and Moral Agency” in Cindy Holder and David Reidy (eds.), Human Rights: The Hard Questions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2011 “Becoming Irrelevant: The Curious History of Anthropology and Human Rights,” in Thomas Cushman (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Human Rights. New York: Routledge.
2011 “’The World, If It Is Not In Pieces’: Relational Normativities and the Anthropology of Folk Cosmopolitanism,” in Hans Harber (ed.), Strangeness and Familiarity: Global Unity and Diversity in Human Rights and Democracy. Groningen: FORUM.
2010 “Understanding the Multiplicity of Justice” (with Kamari Maxine Clarke), introduction to Kamari Maxine Clarke and M. Goodale (eds.), Mirrors of Justice: Law and Power in the Post-Cold War Era. New York: Cambridge University Press.
2009 “Between Facts and Norms: Toward an Anthropology of Ethical Practice,” concluding chapter to Monica Heintz (ed.), The Anthropology of Moralities. Oxford: Berghahn.
2009 “Introduction: Human Rights and Anthropology,” in M. Goodale (ed.), Human Rights: An Anthropological Reader. Oxford: Blackwell. Blackwell Readers in Anthropology.
2008 “Antropologia, immaginazione morale e pratica etica,” in Ugo Fabietti (ed.), Annuario di Antropologia (No. 11). Rome: Meltemi Editore.
2008 “Legalities and Illegalities,” in Deborah Poole (ed.), Companion to Latin American Anthropology. Oxford: Blackwell. Blackwell Companions to Anthropology.
2007 “Anthropology of Law” (with Elizabeth Mertz), Encyclopedia of Law and Society: American and Global Perspectives. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
2007 “Locating Rights, Envisioning Law Between the Global and the Local,” introduction to M. Goodale and Sally Engle Merry (eds.), The Practice of Human Rights: Tracking Law Between the Global and the Local. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2007 “The Power of Right(s): Tracking Empires of Law and New Modes of Social Resistance in Bolivia (and elsewhere),” in M. Goodale and Sally Engle Merry (eds.), The Practice of Human Rights: Tracking Law Between the Global and the Local. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2002 “Legal Ethnography: New Dialogues, Enduring Methods” (with June Starr), introduction to June Starr and M. Goodale (eds.), Practicing Ethnography in Law: New Dialogues, Enduring Methods. New York: Palgrave/St. Martin’s Press.
2002 “Legal Ethnography in an Era of Globalization: The Arrival of Western Human Rights Discourse to Rural Bolivia,” in June Starr and M. Goodale (eds.), Practicing Ethnography in Law: New Dialogues, Enduring Methods. New York: Palgrave/St. Martin’s Press.