The gloss of harmony : the politics of policy making in multilateral organisations / edited by Birgit Müller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Müller, Birgit, 1957- editor.

Series:

Anthropology, culture, and society

Anthropology, culture and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United Nations.

International economic relations.

Policy sciences.

Physical Description:

vii, 268 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : PlutoPress, 2013.

Summary:

This title focuses on agencies of the United Nations, examining the paradox of entrusting relatively powerless and underfunded organisations with the responsibility of tackling some of the essential problems of our time. It identifies the micro-social processes and complexities within multilateral organisations which have, up to now, been largely invisible.

Contents:

Introduction: Lifting the veil of harmony : anthropologists approach international organizations / Birgit Müller

The power of perseverance : exploring negotiation dynamics at the World Intellectual Property Organization / Regina F. Bendix

The making of global consensus : constructing norms on refugee protection at UNHCR / Marion Fresia

The politics of technicality : guidance culture in environmental governance and the international sphere / Peter Bille Larsen

Before audit culture : a genealogy of international oversight of rights / Jane K. Cowan

Politics of shame : the bureaucratisation of international human right monitoring / Tobias Kelly

Entangled in artefacts : governing diverging claims and rights to cultural objects at UNESCO / Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin

"We indigenous peoples ..." : global activisim and the emergence of a new collective subject at the United Nations / Irène Bellier

The loss of harmony : FAO guidance for food security in Nicaragua / Birgit Müller

Nature for money : the configuration of transnational institutional space for environmental governance / Kenneth Iain MacDonald.

ISBN:

9780745333755

0745333753

0745333745

9780745333748

OCLC:

857109453