Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- One: The imagined order -- The ethnography of the unknowable -- Flux and boundary -- Soft power and publics -- Conceptual diplomacy -- The personification of the state -- Two: The power of persons unknown -- The golden record -- Tarde's sociology of imitation -- The persona of mass publics -- Witnessing and new media -- Invisibility -- Three: Cultural lobbying -- Cultural justice -- Northern exposure -- Southern exposure -- African appeal -- Four: The invention of indigenous peoples -- Introduction -- Self-determination and self-definition -- The invention of indigenism -- The cultural contradictions of indigenism -- Five: Civilizing a divided world -- Civilization in review -- Culture according to UNESCO -- The UN's civilizing mission -- Reconceiving civilization -- Civilizational utopianism -- Ethnographic enchantment -- Contradictions of conceptual diplomacy -- Six: Reconciliation -- The human rights confessional -- The violence of assimilation -- A change of spirit -- Modes of repentance and of suffering -- Revolt of the accused -- The social construction of penitence -- Seven: Juridification -- Legal intensification and substitution -- The virtues of the oppressed -- Institutional essentialism -- Juridification from below -- Re-enchantment -- References -- Legal references -- International instruments -- National statutes and agreements -- Canada -- Spain -- Index.

Ronald Niezen examines the impact of public opinion on the processes by which human rights are defended in international law.

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