Monika Krause

Monika Krause is a Senior Lecturer in the Sociology Department at Goldsmiths. Her research addresses comparative questions about forms of expertise, professions, organization and fields of practice. Her new book The Good Project. Humanitarian Relief NGOs and the Fragmentation of Reason examines the shared space of humanitarian relief organizations.

The role of 'best examples' in human rights

It is not only ideology that shapes human rights discourse but also reference points, 'best examples', cases that at their most successful combine a victim, a perpetrator and a right.

By Monika Krause

/ 8 Dec 2014