Isabelle Schulte-tenckhoff
Professor
Anthropology and Sociology
Graduate Institute of International Studies Geneva
Switzerland
Biography
Prior to joining the Institute in 2003, Isabelle Schulte-Tenckhoff taught and undertook research in Canada and France, and carried out various projects in the field of human rights, as well as indigenous and minority rights, especially within the UN system. She was a visiting member at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton as well as programme director at the Collège international de Philosophie in Paris and adjunct professor in the Department of Anthropology of McGill University in Montréal, among other appointments.
Research Interest
Anthropology of non-state legal systems, Critical multiculturalism, Cultural and legal anthropology, International organisations, Legal pluralism, Non-Western epistemologies, Rights of indigenous peoples and minorities, Social rituals and ceremonial exchange, War and peace
Publications
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Schulte-Tenckhoff (ed.)(2002) Altérité et droit: contributions à l’étude du rapport entre droit et culture. Brussels: Bruylant, 416 p.
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V. Négri & I. Schulte-Tenckhoff (eds), 2016, Mimesis – La formation du droit international:entre mimétisme et dissemination/ Towards International Normativity: Between Mimetism and Dissemination. Paris: Pedone.
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Schulte-Tenckhoff, Silva Telles (Orgs) (2015) ‘Agora Somos Todos IndÃgenas:documentação e reflexão sobre os Jogos Mundiais dos Povos IndÃgenas (Palmas, Tocantins,2015). Rio de Janeiro: Editora PUC-Rio.
