About this title: In this vivid ethnography, Harri Englund investigates how ideas of freedom impede struggles against poverty and injustice in emerging democracies. Reaching beyond a narrow focus on the national elite, "Prisoners of Freedom" shows how foreign aid and human rights activism hamper the pursuit of democratic citizenship in Africa. The book explores how activists' aspirations of self-improvement, pursued under harsh economic conditions, find in the human rights discourse a new means to distinguish oneself from the poor masses. Among expatriates, the emphasis on abstract human rights avoids ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: 9-12-06
ISBN-13:9780520249240ISBN:0520249240
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: 9-12-06
ISBN-13:9780520249233ISBN:0520249232
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University Presses of California, Columbia and Pri
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780520249240ISBN:0520249240
Description: New. Investigates how ideas of freedom impede struggles against poverty and injustice in emerging democracies. Reaching beyond a narrow focus on the national elite, this book shows how foreign aid and human rights activism hamper the pursuit of democratic... read more
Edition: 1st edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Univ of California Pr
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780520249240ISBN:0520249240
Description: "This is an exceptionally interesting and well researched book on a topic of enormous importance. It brings careful ethnographic fieldwork to bear on the new 'culture of rights' that has developed in democratized post-colonial African states such as... read more
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Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN-13:9780520249240ISBN:0520249240
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