# The Complexity of Human Rights - Portail Universitaire du droit

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> Description : the complexity of human rights, from vernacularization to quantification, présentation de l’éditeur this book provides the first systematic assessment ...

## Parution

*From Vernacularization to Quantification*

- **ISBN** : 978-1-509-97286-9
- **Éditeur** : Bloomsbury

## Résumé

Présentation de l’éditeur
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.
 
Sommaire
1. IntroductionPhilip Alston
PART I: VERNACULARIZATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS
2. “A Very Murky Process:” Embracing the Indeterminacy of International Justice and Human RightsRichard Ashby Wilson
3. Vernacularization as Anthropological EthicsMark Goodale
4. Vernacularizing Rights: Indispensable but DangerousJack Snyder
5. Globalizing the Indigenous: The Making of International Human Rights from BelowCésar Rodríguez-Garavito
6. Rites of Culture: Legal Frameworks, Indigenous Protocols, and the Circulation of Culture in AustraliaFred 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 RightsPhilip Alston
PART II: QUANTIFICATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS
9. Beyond the Vanishing Point: Quantification as Rhetoric in Today's AntislaverySamuel Martínez
10. The Competitive Pressures of Rankings: Experimental Evidence of Rankings on Domestic PrioritiesRush 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 DataMargaret Satterthwaite
13. Strategizing the world: Deciding who will be left behind in the Sustainable Development Goal on healthSara L.M. Davis
14. Recommendations in Words and Numbers: Thinking with Sally Engle Merry at the Universal Periodic ReviewJane K. Cowan
15. Between Conduct and Counter-Conduct: Human Rights Translation at the Universal Periodic ReviewJulie Billaud


## Métadonnées

- **Catégorie** : Parutions
- **Publié** : 2024-06-26

## Tags

Discours, Droits de l'homme, Histoire du droit, Langage, Sciences politiques, Sociologie et anthropologie du droit

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