Subject Area: Sociology and Anthropology<br/>This course can also be studied in the following specialisations: Development Studies; Globalisation Studies; Women's and Gender Studies<br/><br/>This course explores the rise of human rights discourse and its relationship to other discourses on suffering and social justice. It focuses on the experience of victims of human rights abuse and the politics of meaning. Students will engage in critiques of law as a reductionist discourse on the social by exploring the relationships between human rights and cultural differences such as gender, ethnicity, religion and indigenous cultures. The embodied self, social interdependency and the architecture... -- Course Website
Prerequisites: 24 units of credit in one of the following streams, Sociology and Anthropology, Development Studies, Globalisation Studies, Women's and Gender Studies
