The Complexity of Human Rights: From Vernacularization to Quantification - Softcover

 
9781509972869: The Complexity of Human Rights: From Vernacularization to Quantification
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1509972862 ISBN 13: 9781509972869
Publisher: Hart Publishing, 2024

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.

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About the Author

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.

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Publisher
Hart Publishing
Publication date
2024
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1509972862
ISBN 13 
9781509972869
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
304
Editor
Alston Philip

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