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The Complexity of Human Rights: From Vernacularization to Quantification

The Complexity of Human Rights: From Vernacularization to Quantification

Author: Philip Alston
Publisher: Hart Publishing
ISBN: 9781509972869

Published In: February 2024
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Hardback Edition ISBN: 9781509972906

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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.

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

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