Please share with your colleagues, students, and friends!  Thanks, Mary
Jane Berman, Center for American and World Cultures.  

September 14, 2006 
Dr. Kamari Maxine Clarke
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Yale University and Research
Associate, Yale Law School 

"Global Justice, Local Justice: Unfolding Human Rights"
 
which will take place at 4:30 p.m. in the Heritage Room (Shriver
Center).  

I have included an abstract of her talk at the end of this e-mail.  
 
The talk is sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures
with support from the Black World Studies Program, Department of
Anthropology, Department of Educational Leadership, the Etheridge
Center
for Reflective Leadership, the School of Interdisciplinary
Studies-Western College Program, and the Women's Center.  
 
This talk inaugurates our "Intersecting Lives: Globalization is
Diversity in the 21st Century" Lecture Series and Scholar-in-Residence
Program.  

It has become commonplace to speak of the contemporary intensification
of processes of globalization and the ways in which they are
continually
reconfiguring the structures of everyday life.  The massive
decentralization of capital accumulation worldwide over the past two
decades has resulted in the growth of new centers of economic and
political expansion and innovation, while older centers have declined.

Simultaneously, rapid advances in information and transportation
technologies, as well as the circulation of new regulatory bodies and
technologies of knowledge have changed the ways in which a range of
practices and movements have become reconstituted outside of the
nation
state.  For example, the recent growth of human rights activism and
the
related internationalization of various human rights treaties have led
to the establishment of extra national juridical bodies.  These bodies
have ranged from the widespread proliferation of Truth and
Reconciliation commissions, United Nations hybrid tribunals, and, of
late, the formation of the International Criminal Court (ICC).  Such
formations are shaping new expressions of human rights, and, as a
result, local ideologies of justice are becoming more flexible, while
racial and religious hierarchies are being reconstituted globally--a
reconstitution that co-operates with evolving international divisions
that are leading to complex dynamics for studying global phenomena. 
 The main questions guiding this lecture will explore the complex ways
that global political, legal and economic restructuring over the past
two decades has reshaped the ways that people (especially in
Sub-Saharan
Africa) are addressing the changing human rights landscapes around
them.
I examine the ways that negotiations between local and global justice
regimes are constituted through notions of ethnicity, religion, and
national belonging.  Among the questions addressed are:  How has the
changing global political economy generated new ideas about the
legitimacy of international human rights? What are the competing
juridical visions of justice and reconciliation promoted within
popular
(local) cultural forms?  And how do these articulate with those
promoted
by new judicial institutions such as the International Criminal Court?

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