The Complexity of Human Rights

From Vernacularization to Quantification
Herausgeber: Alston, Philip

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Produktbeschreibung

This landmark publication is the first to assess the foundational contribution of Sally Engle Merry from the human rights law perspective. What impact does over-simplification have on human rights debates? The understandable tendency to regard them as one universal immutable concept ignores their complexity and by extension only serves to weaken them. The 'vernacularization' of rights; ie a language open to translation and interpretation, the ground-breaking approach of legal anthropologist Sally Engle Merry, transformed human rights debates. Here the leading voices in the field assess this approach and show how it is relied on when analysing rights data, under the stewardship of one of the most renowned lawyers of his generation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781509972869
• ISBN-10: 1509972862
• Artikelnr.: 68588357

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Philip Alston PART I: VERNACULARIZATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS
2. "A Very Murky Process:" Embracing the Indeterminacy of International
Justice and Human Rights Richard Ashby Wilson 3. Vernacularization as
Anthropological Ethics Mark Goodale 4. Vernacularizing Rights:
Indispensable but Dangerous Jack Snyder 5. Globalizing the Indigenous: The
Making of International Human Rights from Below César Rodríguez-Garavito 6.
Rites of Culture: Legal Frameworks, Indigenous Protocols, and the
Circulation of Culture in Australia Fred Myers 7. The Vernacularization of
Transitional Justice: Is Transitional Justice Useful in Pre-conflict
Settings? Pablo de Greiff 8. Human Rights Don't Travel by Boat: Responding
to Koskenniemi's Critique of Rights Philip Alston PART II: QUANTIFICATION
AND HUMAN RIGHTS 9. Beyond the Vanishing Point: Quantification as Rhetoric
in Today's Antislavery Samuel Martínez 10. The Competitive Pressures of
Rankings: Experimental Evidence of Rankings on Domestic Priorities Rush
Doshi, Judith Kelley and Beth A. Simmons 11. Visualizing the 'Women, Peace
and Security Agenda' Hilary Charlesworth 12. The Seductions of
Quantification Rebuffed? The Curious Failure by the CESCR to Engage Water
and Sanitation Data Margaret Satterthwaite 13. Strategizing the world:
Deciding who will be left behind in the Sustainable Development Goal on
health Sara L.M. Davis 14. Recommendations in Words and Numbers: Thinking
with Sally Engle Merry at the Universal Periodic Review Jane K. Cowan 15.
Between Conduct and Counter-Conduct: Human Rights Translation at the
Universal Periodic Review Julie Billaud