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31 produkter
Governance by Indicators
Global Power through Quantification and Rankings
Av Sally Engle Merry, Benedict Kingsbury m. fl.
E-bok, 2012
660 kr
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The use of indicators as a technique of global governance is increasing rapidly. Major examples include the World Bank''s Doing Business Indicators, the World Bank''s Good Governance and Rule of Law indicators, the Millennium Development Goals, and the indicators produced by Transparency …
Governance by Indicators
Global Power through Quantification and Rankings
Av Sally Engle Merry, Benedict Kingsbury m. fl.
E-bok, 2012
536 kr
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The use of indicators as a technique of global governance is increasing rapidly. Major examples include the World Bank''s Doing Business Indicators, the World Bank''s Good Governance and Rule of Law indicators, the Millennium Development Goals, and the indicators produced by Transparency …
Governance by Indicators
Global Power through Quantification and Rankings
Av Kevin Davis, Angelina Fisher m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
958 kr
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The use of indicators as a technique of global governance is increasing rapidly. Major examples include the World Bank's Doing Business Indicators, the World Bank's Good Governance and Rule of Law indicators, the Millennium Development Goals, and the indicators produced by Transparency …
Governance by Indicators
Global Power through Quantification and Rankings
Av Kevin Davis, Angelina Fisher m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
1932 kr
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The use of indicators as a technique of global governance is increasing rapidly. Major examples include the World Bank's Doing Business Indicators, the World Bank's Good Governance and Rule of Law indicators, the Millennium Development Goals, and the indicators produced by Transparency …
Seductions of Quantification
Measuring Human Rights, Gender Violence, and Sex Trafficking
Inbunden, 2016
1230 kr
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We live in a world where seemingly everything can be measured. We rely on indicators to translate social phenomena into simple, quantified terms, which in turn can be used to guide individuals, organizations, and governments in establishing policy. Yet counting things requires finding a way to make …
Seductions of Quantification
Measuring Human Rights, Gender Violence, and Sex Trafficking
Häftad, 2016
288 kr
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We live in a world where seemingly everything can be measured. We rely on indicators to translate social phenomena into simple, quantified terms, which in turn can be used to guide individuals, organizations, and governments in establishing policy. Yet counting things requires finding a way to make …
Getting Justice and Getting Even – Legal Consciousness among Working–Class Americans
Häftad, 1990
328 kr
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Ordinary Americans often bring family and neighborhood problems to court, seeking justice or revenge. The litigants in these local squabbles encounter law at its boundaries in the corridors of busy city courthouses, in the offices of court clerks, and in the church parlors used by mediation …
Human Rights and Gender Violence
Translating International Law into Local Justice
Häftad, 2005
339 kr
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Human rights law and the legal protection of women from violence are still fairly new concepts. As a result, substantial discrepancies exist between what is decided in the halls of the United Nations and what women experience on a daily basis in their communities. "Human Rights and Gender Violence" …
Human Rights and Gender Violence
Translating International Law into Local Justice
E-bok, 2009
739 kr
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Human rights law and the legal protection of women from violence are still fairly new concepts. As a result, substantial discrepancies exist between what is decided in the halls of the United Nations and what women experience on a daily basis in their communities. Human Rights and Gender Violence …
Possibility of Popular Justice
A Case Study of Community Mediation in the United States
Av Neil Milner, Sally Engle Merry
E-bok, 2010
679 kr
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" The Possibility of Popular Justice is essential reading for scholars and practitioners of community mediation and should be very high on the list of anyone seriously concerned with dispute resolution in general. The book offers many rewards for the advanced student of law and society studies." …
The Practice of Human Rights
Tracking Law between the Global and the Local
Av Mark Goodale, Sally Engle Merry
Häftad, 2007
732 kr
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Human rights are now the dominant approach to social justice globally. But how do human rights work? What do they do? Drawing on anthropological studies of human rights work from around the world, this book examines human rights in practice. It shows how groups and organizations mobilize human …
The Practice of Human Rights
Tracking Law between the Global and the Local
Av Mark Goodale, Sally Engle Merry
Inbunden, 2007
1123 kr
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Human rights are now the dominant approach to social justice globally. But how do human rights work? What do they do? Drawing on anthropological studies of human rights work from around the world, this book examines human rights in practice. It shows how groups and organizations mobilize human …
Gender Violence
A Cultural Perspective
Inbunden, 2008
1254 kr
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Taking an anthropological perspective, this comprehensive book offers a highly readable and concise overview of what constitutes gender violence, its social context, and important directions in intervention and reform. Uses stories, personal accounts, case studies and a global perspective to …
Gender Violence
A Cultural Perspective
Häftad, 2008
455 kr
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Taking an anthropological perspective, this comprehensive book offers a highly readable and concise overview of what constitutes gender violence, its social context, and important directions in intervention and reform. Uses stories, personal accounts, case studies and a global perspective to …
Colonizing Hawai'i
The Cultural Power of Law
Häftad, 2000
908 kr
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How does law transform family, sexuality, and community in the fractured social world characteristic of the colonizing process? The law was a cornerstone of the so-called civilizing process of nineteenth-century colonialism. It was simultaneously a means of transformation and a marker of the …
Colonizing Hawai'i
The Cultural Power of Law
E-bok, 2020
628 kr
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How does law transform family, sexuality, and community in the fractured social world characteristic of the colonizing process? The law was a cornerstone of the so-called civilizing process of nineteenth-century colonialism. It was simultaneously a means of transformation and a marker of the …
Human Rights Transformation in Practice
Av Tine Destrooper, Sally Engle Merry
Inbunden, 2018
788 kr
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Human rights are increasingly described as being in crisis. But are human rights really on the verge of disappearing? Human Rights Transformation in Practice argues that it is certainly the case that human rights organizations in many parts of the world are under threat, but that the ideals of …
Human Rights Transformation in Practice
Av Tine Destrooper, Sally Engle Merry
E-bok, 2018
924 kr
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Human rights are increasingly described as being in crisis. But are human rights really on the verge of disappearing? Human Rights Transformation in Practice argues that it is certainly the case that human rights organizations in many parts of the world are under threat, but that the ideals of …
The New Legal Realism: Volume 2
Studying Law Globally
Av Heinz Klug, Sally Engle Merry
Inbunden, 2016
1568 kr
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This is the second of two volumes announcing the emergence of the new legal realism. At a time when the legal academy is turning to social science for new approaches, these volumes chart a new course for interdisciplinary research by synthesizing law on the ground, empirical research, and theory. …
The Quiet Power of Indicators
Measuring Governance, Corruption, and Rule of Law
Av Sally Engle Merry, Kevin E. Davis m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
1187 kr
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Using a power-knowledge framework, this volume critically investigates how major global indicators of legal governance are produced, disseminated and used, and to what effect. Original case studies include Freedom House's Freedom in the World indicator, the Global Reporting Initiative's structure …
The New Legal Realism: Volume 2
Studying Law Globally
Av Heinz Klug, Sally Engle Merry
Häftad, 2017
493 kr
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This is the second of two volumes announcing the emergence of the new legal realism. At a time when the legal academy is turning to social science for new approaches, these volumes chart a new course for interdisciplinary research by synthesizing law on the ground, empirical research, and theory. …
The Quiet Power of Indicators
Measuring Governance, Corruption, and Rule of Law
Av Sally Engle Merry, Kevin E. Davis m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
448 kr
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Using a power-knowledge framework, this volume critically investigates how major global indicators of legal governance are produced, disseminated and used, and to what effect. Original case studies include Freedom House's Freedom in the World indicator, the Global Reporting Initiative's structure …
Quiet Power of Indicators
Measuring Governance, Corruption, and Rule of Law
Av Benedict Kingsbury, Kevin E. Davis m. fl.
E-bok, 2015
510 kr
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Using a power-knowledge framework, this volume critically investigates how major global indicators of legal governance are produced, disseminated and used, and to what effect. Original case studies include Freedom House''s Freedom in the World indicator, the Global Reporting Initiative''s structure …
Quiet Power of Indicators
Measuring Governance, Corruption, and Rule of Law
Av Benedict Kingsbury, Kevin E. Davis m. fl.
E-bok, 2015
499 kr
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Using a power-knowledge framework, this volume critically investigates how major global indicators of legal governance are produced, disseminated and used, and to what effect. Original case studies include Freedom House''s Freedom in the World indicator, the Global Reporting Initiative''s structure …
New Legal Realism: Volume 2
Studying Law Globally
Av Sally Engle Merry, Heinz Klug
E-bok, 2016
480 kr
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This is the second of two volumes announcing the emergence of the new legal realism. At a time when the legal academy is turning to social science for new approaches, these volumes chart a new course for interdisciplinary research by synthesizing law on the ground, empirical research, and theory. …
New Legal Realism: Volume 2
Studying Law Globally
Av Sally Engle Merry, Heinz Klug
E-bok, 2016
480 kr
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This is the second of two volumes announcing the emergence of the new legal realism. At a time when the legal academy is turning to social science for new approaches, these volumes chart a new course for interdisciplinary research by synthesizing law on the ground, empirical research, and theory. …
Gender Violence
A Cultural Perspective
E-bok, 2011
537 kr
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Taking an anthropological perspective, this comprehensive book offers a highly readable and concise overview of what constitutes gender violence, its social context, and important directions in intervention and reform. Uses stories, personal accounts, case studies and a global perspective to …
Law & Empire in the Pacific
Fiji and Hawai'i
Häftad, 2004
217 kr
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Hawai'i and Fiji share strikingly similar histories of colonialism and plantation sugar production but display different legacies of ethnic conflict today. Pacific Island chiefdoms colonized by the United States and England respectively, the islands' indigenous populations were forced to share …
Possibility of Popular Justice
A Case Study of Community Mediation in the United States
Av Sally Engle Merry, Neil Milner
Häftad, 1995
450 kr
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"The Possibility of Popular Justice is essential reading for scholars and practitioners of community mediation and should be very high on the list of anyone seriously concerned with dispute resolution in general. The book offers many rewards for the advanced student of law and society studies." …
Possibility of Popular Justice
A Case Study of Community Mediation in the United States
Av Sally Engle Merry, Neil Milner
Inbunden, 1993
1228 kr
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"The Possibility of Popular Justice is essential reading for scholars and practitioners of community mediation and should be very high on the list of anyone seriously concerned with dispute resolution in general. The book offers many rewards for the advanced student of law and society studies." …
