Bureaucratic Intimacies: Translating Human Rights In Turkey (Stanford Studies In Middle Eastern And Islamic Societies And Cultures)

Bureaueratic Intimacies investigates how Turkish government workers encounter human rights rhetoric and articulates the perils and promises of these encounters for the subjects and objects of Turkish governance. Drawing on years of participant observation in training programs for police officers, judges and prosecutors, healthcare workers, and prison personnel, Elif BabUl shows how rights are framed as requirements for expertise and professionalism, and are thereby stripped of their radical valences and political association with grassroots movements. The translation of human rights into a tool of good governance leads to competing understandings of what human rights should do, and not necessarily to liberal, transparent, and accountable governmental practices.

• | Author: Elif MUyesser BabUl
• | Publisher: Stanford University Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 03, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 248 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Political Science
• | ISBN-10: 1503601897
• | ISBN-13: 9781503601895