BOOK CHAPTERS

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.