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Mark Goodale
Associate Professor of Conflict Analysis and Anthropology
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Ph.D, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Biography

Mark Goodale is an anthropologist, sociolegal scholar, and social theorist. He currently conducts ethnographic research on revolution and the politics of disenchantment in Latin America (Bolivia) and writes theoretically about human rights as a key mode of contemporary world-making. For more information, please see Mark's website at mark-goodale.com.



Recent Activity
Mark Goodale: Published
Surrendering to Utopia: An Anthropology of Human Rights (Stanford Studies in Human Rights)
Surrendering to Utopia is a critical and wide-ranging study of anthropology's contributions to human rights. Providing a unique window into the underlying political and intellectual currents that...

Category: Book
Mark Goodale: Published
Mirrors of Justice: Law, Culture, and the Making of History
Book Description Mirrors of Justice is a groundbreaking study of the meanings of and possibilities for justice in the contemporary world. The book brings together a group of both prominent and...

Category: Book
Mark Goodale: Published
Human Rights: An Anthropological Reader
This innovative reader brings together key works that demonstrate the important and unique contributions anthropologists have made to the understanding and practice of human rights over the last 60...

Category: Book
Mark Goodale: Published
Dilemmas of Modernity: Bolivian Encounters with Law and Liberalism
Dilemmas of Modernity provides an innovative approach to the study of contemporary Bolivia, moving telescopically between social, political, legal, and discursive analyses, and drawing from a range...

Category: Book
Mark Goodale: Published
Legalities and Illegalities
This chapter examines the anthropological study of law in Latin America. My goal here is threefold. First, I describe a key insight from anthropology about the way law and its normative cousins are...

Category: Book Chapter
Recent Activity
Mark Goodale: Published
Surrendering to Utopia: An Anthropology of Human Rights (Stanford Studies in Human Rights)
Surrendering to Utopia is a critical and wide-ranging study of anthropology's contributions to human rights. Providing a unique window into the underlying political and intellectual currents that...

Category: Book
Mark Goodale: Published
Mirrors of Justice: Law, Culture, and the Making of History
Book Description Mirrors of Justice is a groundbreaking study of the meanings of and possibilities for justice in the contemporary world. The book brings together a group of both prominent and...

Category: Book
Mark Goodale: Published
Human Rights: An Anthropological Reader
This innovative reader brings together key works that demonstrate the important and unique contributions anthropologists have made to the understanding and practice of human rights over the last 60...

Category: Book
Mark Goodale: Published
Dilemmas of Modernity: Bolivian Encounters with Law and Liberalism
Dilemmas of Modernity provides an innovative approach to the study of contemporary Bolivia, moving telescopically between social, political, legal, and discursive analyses, and drawing from a range...

Category: Book
Mark Goodale: Published
Legalities and Illegalities
This chapter examines the anthropological study of law in Latin America. My goal here is threefold. First, I describe a key insight from anthropology about the way law and its normative cousins are...

Category: Book Chapter
Title Published Date
May 13, 2009
Surrendering to Utopia is a critical and wide-ranging study of anthropology's contributions to human rights. Providing a unique window into the underlying political and intellectual currents that have shaped human rights in the postwar period, this ambitious work...
Category: Book
2009
Book Description Mirrors of Justice is a groundbreaking study of the meanings of and possibilities for justice in the contemporary world. The book brings together a group of both prominent and emerging scholars to reconsider the relationships between justice,...
Category: Book
November 10, 2008
This innovative reader brings together key works that demonstrate the important and unique contributions anthropologists have made to the understanding and practice of human rights over the last 60 years. Draws on a range of intellectual and methodological...
Category: Book
November 03, 2008
Dilemmas of Modernity provides an innovative approach to the study of contemporary Bolivia, moving telescopically between social, political, legal, and discursive analyses, and drawing from a range of disciplinary traditions. Based on a decade of research, it...
Category: Book
May 27, 2008
This chapter examines the anthropological study of law in Latin America. My goal here is threefold. First, I describe a key insight from anthropology about the way law and its normative cousins are constituted in Latin America by locating these processes within...
Category: Book Chapter
August 27, 2007
Human rights are now the dominant approach to social justice globally. But how do human rights work? What do they do? Drawing on anthropological studies of human rights work from around the world, this book examines human rights in practice. It shows how groups...
Category: Book
June 01, 2006
Some 17 years after the end of the cold war, the international and transnational human rights regimes that emerged in the wake of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights are at a crossroads. On the one hand, the political openings created by the end of the...
Category: Journal Article
March 01, 2006
This article represents a search for a different analytical language through which anthropology can engage with human rights. This effort is intended to contribute to what is an expanding range of ways in which anthropologists conceptualize, advocate for, and...
Category: Journal Article
March 01, 2006
In this "In Focus" introduction, I begin by offering an overview of anthropology's engagements with human rights following the American Anthropological Association's (AAA) 1947 "Statement on Human Rights." After offering a rereading of the...
Category: Journal Article
December 01, 2005
This article explores the idea that law has become newly constitutive in a postmodern transnational system in which modernity's classic polarities have become obscured, the discipline of late capitalism has become widely if partially internalized outside of...
Category: Journal Article
December 06, 2002
Practicing Ethnography in Law brings together a selection of top scholars in legal anthropology, social sciences, and law to delineate the state of the art in ethnographic research strategies. Each of these original essays addresses a particular set of analytical...
Category: Book
December 01, 1997
The study consisted of four gender-segregated focus groups in which farm couples were asked to describe an actual and a hypothetical farm decision. We used this study to triangulate the findings of a survey of six hundred couples on farm decision making. We also...
Category: Journal Article
Recent Activity
Mark Goodale: Published
Surrendering to Utopia: An Anthropology of Human Rights (Stanford Studies in Human Rights)
Surrendering to Utopia is a critical and wide-ranging study of anthropology's contributions to human rights. Providing a unique window into the underlying political and intellectual currents that...

Category: Book
Mark Goodale: Published
Mirrors of Justice: Law, Culture, and the Making of History
Book Description Mirrors of Justice is a groundbreaking study of the meanings of and possibilities for justice in the contemporary world. The book brings together a group of both prominent and...

Category: Book
Mark Goodale: Published
Human Rights: An Anthropological Reader
This innovative reader brings together key works that demonstrate the important and unique contributions anthropologists have made to the understanding and practice of human rights over the last 60...

Category: Book
Mark Goodale: Published
Dilemmas of Modernity: Bolivian Encounters with Law and Liberalism
Dilemmas of Modernity provides an innovative approach to the study of contemporary Bolivia, moving telescopically between social, political, legal, and discursive analyses, and drawing from a range...

Category: Book
Mark Goodale: Published
Legalities and Illegalities
This chapter examines the anthropological study of law in Latin America. My goal here is threefold. First, I describe a key insight from anthropology about the way law and its normative cousins are...

Category: Book Chapter
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Title Published Date
June 08, 2009
Mason anthropologist Mark Goodale at a political rally in La Paz, Bolivia, with a condor mascot. Anthropologist
Category: Newspaper Article

May 01, 2009
Surrendering to UtopiaStanford University Press
Category: Newsletter Article

March 13, 2009
Excerpt:For a swath of the population in Bolivia in particular and the region more generally, the U.S. government is,
Category: Newspaper Article

November 01, 2008
Much of Latin America is in the midst of a period of profound transition and uncertainty. The end of the Cold War
Category: Newsletter Article

September 01, 2008
Dilemmas of ModernityStanford University PressBook Description
Category: Newsletter Article

Recent Activity
Mark Goodale: Published
Surrendering to Utopia: An Anthropology of Human Rights (Stanford Studies in Human Rights)
Surrendering to Utopia is a critical and wide-ranging study of anthropology's contributions to human rights. Providing a unique window into the underlying political and intellectual currents that...

Category: Book
Mark Goodale: Published
Mirrors of Justice: Law, Culture, and the Making of History
Book Description Mirrors of Justice is a groundbreaking study of the meanings of and possibilities for justice in the contemporary world. The book brings together a group of both prominent and...

Category: Book
Mark Goodale: Published
Human Rights: An Anthropological Reader
This innovative reader brings together key works that demonstrate the important and unique contributions anthropologists have made to the understanding and practice of human rights over the last 60...

Category: Book
Mark Goodale: Published
Dilemmas of Modernity: Bolivian Encounters with Law and Liberalism
Dilemmas of Modernity provides an innovative approach to the study of contemporary Bolivia, moving telescopically between social, political, legal, and discursive analyses, and drawing from a range...

Category: Book
Mark Goodale: Published
Legalities and Illegalities
This chapter examines the anthropological study of law in Latin America. My goal here is threefold. First, I describe a key insight from anthropology about the way law and its normative cousins are...

Category: Book Chapter
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The CIGA Seminar Series and the University Honors Program Present ∞
November 15, 2010
Join us for a film showing of "Bastards of Utopia" a film by Maple Razsa and Pacho Velez followed by Q & A and discussion with filmmaker Dr. Maple Razsa
September 30, 2010
This study seeks to investigate to what extent international human rights advocates and conflict resolvers are skilled and equipped to deal with situations such as the state-run gender violence which has led to a protracted conflict in a country like Iran. This project aims to first
July 22, 2010
Hosted by CRASSH (Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities), University of Cambridge Keynote/Invited speakers: Julio Faundez, University of Warwick, U.K. Daniel Goldstein, Rutgers University, U.S.A. Mark Goodale, George Mason University, U.S.A. Cesar Rodríguez-Garavito,
January 22, 2010
Recent Activity
Mark Goodale: Published
Surrendering to Utopia: An Anthropology of Human Rights (Stanford Studies in Human Rights)
Surrendering to Utopia is a critical and wide-ranging study of anthropology's contributions to human rights. Providing a unique window into the underlying political and intellectual currents that...

Category: Book
Mark Goodale: Published
Mirrors of Justice: Law, Culture, and the Making of History
Book Description Mirrors of Justice is a groundbreaking study of the meanings of and possibilities for justice in the contemporary world. The book brings together a group of both prominent and...

Category: Book
Mark Goodale: Published
Human Rights: An Anthropological Reader
This innovative reader brings together key works that demonstrate the important and unique contributions anthropologists have made to the understanding and practice of human rights over the last 60...

Category: Book
Mark Goodale: Published
Dilemmas of Modernity: Bolivian Encounters with Law and Liberalism
Dilemmas of Modernity provides an innovative approach to the study of contemporary Bolivia, moving telescopically between social, political, legal, and discursive analyses, and drawing from a range...

Category: Book
Mark Goodale: Published
Legalities and Illegalities
This chapter examines the anthropological study of law in Latin America. My goal here is threefold. First, I describe a key insight from anthropology about the way law and its normative cousins are...

Category: Book Chapter
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Recent Activity
Mark Goodale: Published
Surrendering to Utopia: An Anthropology of Human Rights (Stanford Studies in Human Rights)
Surrendering to Utopia is a critical and wide-ranging study of anthropology's contributions to human rights. Providing a unique window into the underlying political and intellectual currents that...

Category: Book
Mark Goodale: Published
Mirrors of Justice: Law, Culture, and the Making of History
Book Description Mirrors of Justice is a groundbreaking study of the meanings of and possibilities for justice in the contemporary world. The book brings together a group of both prominent and...

Category: Book
Mark Goodale: Published
Human Rights: An Anthropological Reader
This innovative reader brings together key works that demonstrate the important and unique contributions anthropologists have made to the understanding and practice of human rights over the last 60...

Category: Book
Mark Goodale: Published
Dilemmas of Modernity: Bolivian Encounters with Law and Liberalism
Dilemmas of Modernity provides an innovative approach to the study of contemporary Bolivia, moving telescopically between social, political, legal, and discursive analyses, and drawing from a range...

Category: Book
Mark Goodale: Published
Legalities and Illegalities
This chapter examines the anthropological study of law in Latin America. My goal here is threefold. First, I describe a key insight from anthropology about the way law and its normative cousins are...

Category: Book Chapter
Titlesort icon Semester
Continuation of steps in research process to prepare dissertation and implement published research. Builds on CONF 811 by examining qualitative...
Introduces major controversies and debates surrounding use of human rights theory and practice cross-culturally. After basic study of human rights...
Examines the role culture plays in genesis, structuring, and resolution of processes of conflict within and between...
Introduces students to the philosophies behind social science research and the methods for conducting research in the field of conflict resolution...
Introduces field of conflict analysis and resolution. Examines definitions of conflict and diverse views of its...
Capstone course in which students reflect on what they have learned, integrating knowledge from course work and...
Introduces social science research methods at undergraduate level. Covers basic epistemology of social research,...
Recent Activity
Mark Goodale: Published
Surrendering to Utopia: An Anthropology of Human Rights (Stanford Studies in Human Rights)
Surrendering to Utopia is a critical and wide-ranging study of anthropology's contributions to human rights. Providing a unique window into the underlying political and intellectual currents that...

Category: Book
Mark Goodale: Published
Mirrors of Justice: Law, Culture, and the Making of History
Book Description Mirrors of Justice is a groundbreaking study of the meanings of and possibilities for justice in the contemporary world. The book brings together a group of both prominent and...

Category: Book
Mark Goodale: Published
Human Rights: An Anthropological Reader
This innovative reader brings together key works that demonstrate the important and unique contributions anthropologists have made to the understanding and practice of human rights over the last 60...

Category: Book
Mark Goodale: Published
Dilemmas of Modernity: Bolivian Encounters with Law and Liberalism
Dilemmas of Modernity provides an innovative approach to the study of contemporary Bolivia, moving telescopically between social, political, legal, and discursive analyses, and drawing from a range...

Category: Book
Mark Goodale: Published
Legalities and Illegalities
This chapter examines the anthropological study of law in Latin America. My goal here is threefold. First, I describe a key insight from anthropology about the way law and its normative cousins are...

Category: Book Chapter
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