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Kamari Maxine Clarke Editor & Author

Kamari Maxine Clarke is Professor of Anthropology at Yale University and Senior Research Scientist at the Yale Law School. She is the author of Fictions of Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Challenge of Legal Pluralism in Sub-Saharan Africa, and Mapping Yoruba Networks: Power and Agency in the Making of Transnational Communities. She is co-editor of Globalization and Race: Transformations in the Cultural Politics of Blackness. Clarke has researched transnational religious movements in the United States and West Africa, international human rights and rule of law movements, and, over the past decade, the cultural politics of power and justice in the burgeoning realm of international tribunals. Mark Goodale is Associate Professor of Conflict Analysis and Anthropology at George Mason University and Series Editor of Stanford Studies in Human Rights. He is the author of Surrendering to Utopia: An Anthropology of Human Rights and Dilemmas of Modernity: Bolivian Encounters with Law and Liberalism, editor of Human Rights: An Anthropological Reader, and co-editor of The Practice of Human Rights: Tracking Law Between the Global and the Local and Practicing Ethnography in Law: New Dialogues, Enduring Practices. He is currently writing a book on revolution and the moral imagination in contemporary Bolivia.