Human rights and gender violence the university of chicago press. Merry, sally engle, the meaning and management of danger in a highcrime urban neighborhood. Translating international law into local justice, sally engle merry is published by university of chicago press. In this article, i explore the practice of human rights, focusing on where and how human rights concepts and institutions are produced, how they circulate, and how they shape everyday lives and actions. Books by sally engle merry author of human rights and. Constructing a global law violence against women and the human rights system. Regulating gender violence through global law sally engle merry in the current era of human rights activism, the global production of human rights approaches to violence against women generates a wide variety of localization processes. Sally engle merry s most popular book is human rights and gender violence. Cambridge, 2007, and human rights transformations in practice coedited with tina destrooper. The seductions of quantification by sally engle merry. Madelaine adelman, arizona state university marianne. Measuring violence against women sally engle merry as we have seen, creating systems of measurement is a deeply political as well as a technical process. Her recent books include human rights and gender violence. Human rights and gender violence sally engle merry.
She tries to express the way in which local government complicates the issue of gender. With superb attentiveness to such an historical trajectory of human rights, sally engle merrys book human rights and gender violence. She is the author of five books, including human rights and gender violence, also published by the university of chicago press. In tackling such questions, the writings of sally engle merry and. Sally engle merry is a faculty director of the center for human rights and global justice. Human rights and gender violence ebook by sally engle. Merry attempts to provide a model for the cultural translation of such rights into transformative rights consciousness, despite. Sally engle merry, professor of anthropology and affiliated faculty at nyu school of law, won the school for advanced researchs 2010 j. If you previously purchased this article, log in to readcube. Human rights law and the legal protection of women from violence are still fairly new concepts. Translating international law into local justice 2006, and the practice of human rights.
Translating international law into local justice, sally engle merry chicago. Merry, a professor of anthropology at new york university, offers a thorough critique of what she describes as the indicator culture that shapes policy around the globe. She is also associate department chair, faculty codirector of the center for human rights and global. Human rights transformation in practice tine destrooper. Staley prize for her book human rights and gender violence. She is silver professor of anthropology at new york university, former director of the law and society program, and an affiliated faculty member of the nyu school of law. Human rights and gender violence investigates the tensions between global law and local justice from an insiders perspective. The anthropology of human rights nyu wagner graduate. Constructing a global lawviolence against women and the. The making of human rights policy on violence against women, anthropology news 48, 2324. Merry attempts to provide a model for the cultural translation of such rights into transformative rights. Each case study provides a powerful illustration of merrys key arguments.
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A cultural perspective blackwell, 2009, the practice of human rights, coedited with mark goodale. Request pdf on mar 1, 2007, elizabeth heger boyle and others published. Sally engle merry is the silver professor of anthropology at new york university and author of several books, including the seductions of quantification. Sally engle merry s recent books include colonizing hawaii princeton, 2000, human rights and gender violence chicago, 2006, gender violence. And that, essentially, is the topic of sally engle merry s book, the seductions of quantification. Law reform in local and global places volume 28 issue 4 mindie lazarusblack, sally engle merry skip to main content accessibility help we use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites.
Human rights and gender violence is an ambitious study that investigates the tensions between global law and local justice. As she demonstrates in chapters 3 and 4, the 1990s and 2000s saw an expansion of the international movement against gender violence and its redefinition as a human rights violation. Indicators, human rights, and global governance by sally engle merry indicators are rapidly multiplying as tools for assessing and promoting a variety of social justice and reform strategies around the world. Translating international law into local justice, attempts to show the relationship that exists between international rights and local culture.
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