The Complexity of Human Rights: From Vernacularization to Quantification
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- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 2006
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 304 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781509972876
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781509972869
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Date of Addition:
- 02/07/24
- Copyrighted By:
- regimes. Anglo-Australian legal categories were expanded to take on the work of seeking redress for Indigenous claims of wrongdoing and harm, both inside and outside of formal legal processes. In
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Social Studies, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Edited by:
- Professor Philip Alston