Complexity of Human Rights

From Vernacularization to Quantification

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

This book provides the first systematic assessment from a human rights law perspective of the landmark contributions of the renowned legal anthropologist, Sally Engle Merry.What impact does over-simplification have on human rights debates? The understandable tendency to present them as a single, universal, and immutable concept ignores their complexity and by extension only serves to weaken them.Merry and her colleagues transformed human rights thinking by highlighting the process of ‘vernacularization’, which sees rights discourse as being unavoidably dependent upon translation and interpretation. She also warned of the pitfalls of excessive reliance upon statistical and other indicators, through the process of quantification. Here the leading voices in the field assess the significance of these contributions.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-02-08
Mått:158 x 238 x 24 mm
Vikt:620 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:304
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781509972906

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Philip Alston is John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, USA, and a former UN Special Rapporteur on both extreme poverty and human rights, and on extrajudicial executions.

Innehållsförteckning

1. IntroductionPhilip AlstonPART I: VERNACULARIZATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS2. “A Very Murky Process:” Embracing the Indeterminacy of International Justice and Human RightsRichard Ashby Wilson3. Vernacularization as Anthropological EthicsMark Goodale4. Vernacularizing Rights: Indispensable but DangerousJack Snyder5. Globalizing the Indigenous: The Making of International Human Rights from BelowCésar Rodríguez-Garavito6. Rites of Culture: Legal Frameworks, Indigenous Protocols, and the Circulation of Culture in AustraliaFred Myers7. The Vernacularization of Transitional Justice: Is Transitional Justice Useful in Pre-conflict Settings?Pablo de Greiff8. Human Rights Don’t Travel by Boat: Responding to Koskenniemi’s Critique of RightsPhilip AlstonPART II: QUANTIFICATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS9. Beyond the Vanishing Point: Quantification as Rhetoric in Today’s AntislaverySamuel Martínez10. The Competitive Pressures of Rankings: Experimental Evidence of Rankings on Domestic PrioritiesRush Doshi, Judith Kelley and Beth A. Simmons11. Visualizing the ‘Women, Peace and Security Agenda’Hilary Charlesworth12. The Seductions of Quantification Rebuffed? The Curious Failure by the CESCR to Engage Water and Sanitation DataMargaret Satterthwaite13. Strategizing the world: Deciding who will be left behind in the Sustainable Development Goal on healthSara L.M. Davis14. Recommendations in Words and Numbers: Thinking with Sally Engle Merry at the Universal Periodic ReviewJane K. Cowan15. Between Conduct and Counter-Conduct: Human Rights Translation at the Universal Periodic ReviewJulie Billaud