Ronald Niezen (McGill Univ. - Law and Anthropology) &
Maria Sapignoli (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology) have published
Palaces of Hope: The Anthropology of Global Organizations (Cambridge Univ. Press 2017). Contents include:
- Ronald Niezen & Maria Sapignoli, Introduction
- Marc Abélès, Heart of darkness: an exploration of the WTO
- Niels Nagelhus Schia, Horseshoe and catwalk: power, complexity and consensus-making in the United Nations Security Council
- Maria Sapignoli, A kaleidoscopic institutional form: expertise and transformation in the permanent forum on indigenous issues
- Jane K. Cowan & Julie Billaud, The 'public' character of the Universal Periodic Review: contested concept and methodological challenge
- Miia Halme-Tuomisaari, Meeting 'the world' at the Palais Wilson: embodied universalism at the UN Human Rights Committee
- Sally Engle Merry, Expertise and quantification in global institutions
- Robert K. Hitchcock, From boardrooms to field programs: humanitarianism and international development in Southern Africa
- Tobias Berger, Global village courts: international organizations and the bureaucratization of rural justice systems in the Global South
- Noor Johnson & David Rojas, Contrasting values of forests and ice in the making of a global climate agreement
- Christoph Brumann, The best of the best: positing, measuring and sensing value in the UNESCO World Heritage Arena
- Richard Ashby Wilson, Propaganda on trial: structural fragility and the epistemology of international legal institutions
- Ronald Niezen, The anthropology by organizations: legal knowledge and the UN's ethnological imagination
