Human rights at the crossroads / edited by Mark Goodale.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Human rights after the Post-Cold War / Mark Goodale -- Human rights and the politics of contestation / Michael Goodhart -- Why act towards one another "in a spirit of brotherhood"? : the grounds of human rights / Michael J. Perry -- An overlapping consensus on human rights and human dignity / Ari Kohen -- The "right to have rights" to the rescue : from human rights to global democracy / Eva Erman -- Prosecuting human rights violations : universal jurisdiction and the crime of torture / Tobias Kelly -- Solidarity and accountability : rethinking citizenship and human rights / Karen Ann Faulk -- Whose vernacular? : translating human rights in local contexts / Daniel M. Goldstein -- Sacred graves and human rights / Adam Rosenblatt -- Human rights monitoring and the question of indicators / Sally Engle Merry -- The paradox of perpetration : a view from the Cambodian genocide / Alexander Laban Hinton -- "Why we care" : constructing solidarity / Alison Brysk -- Historical amnesia, genocide, and the rejection of universal human rights / Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann -- The law's legal anthropology / Ronald Niezen -- Cutting human rights down to size / Harri Englund -- Acceptable uses of people / Pheng Cheah.