The Complexity of Human Rights (eBook, PDF)

From Vernacularization to Quantification
Redaktion: Alston, Philip

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781509972883
• Artikelnr.: 69907454

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