Dissertation Research: The Politics of Human Rights in Thailand

这一为期一年的项目将为通过占主导地位的普遍主义/文化相对主义范式理解人权提供一种人种学的替代方案。它以泰国为背景，将在2002年和2003年在曼谷进行为期六个月的初步实地考察和语言培训的基础上，将国家人权委员会、卫生系统改革组织和内政部社区发展司作为主要地点。它将利用访谈收集非政府组织领导人的专业传记，以研究新社会运动中个人传记和机构历史的交集，参与者观察以了解国家人权委员会和人权事务高级专员办事处的日常运作和机构协议，以及档案研究以跟踪具体人权案件的发展和制定。

This year-long project will provide an ethnographic alternative to understanding human rights through the dominant universalist/cultural relativist paradigm. Set in Thailand, it will build on six months of preliminary fieldwork and language training in Bangkok in 2002 and 2003, and take the National Human Rights Commission, the Health System Reform Organization, and the Community Development Department, Ministry of the Interior, as its primary sites. It will employ interviews to collect professional biographies of NGO leaders in order to study the intersection of personal biographies and institutional histories in new social movements, participant observation to learn about the everyday functioning and institutional protocols of the NHRC and HSRO, and archival research to track the development and crafting of specific human rights cases.