Tine Destrooper, Sally Engle Merry
Human Rights Transformation in Practice
Herausgeber: Destrooper, Tine; Merry, Sally Engle
Tine Destrooper, Sally Engle Merry
Human Rights Transformation in Practice
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Human rights are increasingly described as being in crisis, but the ideals inherent in them remain appealing. Human Rights Transformation in Practice demonstrates how these ideals are embedded in everyday social practice and activism, and how they can be reinterpreted and redefined in a variety of contexts and for a range of problems.
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Human rights are increasingly described as being in crisis, but the ideals inherent in them remain appealing. Human Rights Transformation in Practice demonstrates how these ideals are embedded in everyday social practice and activism, and how they can be reinterpreted and redefined in a variety of contexts and for a range of problems.
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- Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
- Seitenzahl: 296
- Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2018
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 238mm x 164mm x 34mm
- Gewicht: 566g
- ISBN-13: 9780812250572
- ISBN-10: 0812250575
- Artikelnr.: 52419674
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Libri GmbH
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- gpsr@libri.de
- Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
- Seitenzahl: 296
- Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2018
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 238mm x 164mm x 34mm
- Gewicht: 566g
- ISBN-13: 9780812250572
- ISBN-10: 0812250575
- Artikelnr.: 52419674
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Libri GmbH
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- gpsr@libri.de
Tine Destrooper is the director of the Flemish Peace Institute and a visiting scholar at the Human Rights Centre of Ghent University. She is author of Come Hell or High Water: Feminism and the Legacy of Armed Conflict in Central America. Sally Engle Merry is the Silver Professor of Anthropology at New York University and author of several books, including The Seductions of Quantification: Measuring Human Rights, Gender Violence, and Sex Trafficking.
Preface
-Sally Engle Merry
List of Abbreviations
Introduction. On Travel, Translation, and Transformation
-Tine Destrooper
PART I. INITIATIVES BY FORMAL HUMAN RIGHTS NORM-SETTERS
Chapter 1. The Escher-Human Rights Escalator: Technologies of the Local
-Vasuki Nesiah
Chapter 2. Accommodating Local Human Rights Practice at the UN Human Rights
Council
-Arne Vandenbogaerde
Chapter 3. Human Rights-Based Approaches to Development: The Local, Travel,
and Transformation
-Wouter Vandenhole-
PART II. INTERACTIONS BETWEEN SOCIAL MOBILIZATION AND LEGAL CLAIM-MAKING
Chapter 4. Lost Through Translation: Political Dialectics of Ecosocial and
Collective Rights in Ecuador
-Johannes M. WaldmÜller
Chapter 5. Upstreaming or Streamlining? Translating Social Movement Agendas
into Legal Claims in Nepal and the Dominican Republic
-Samuel MartÍnez
Chapter 6. New Visibilities: Challenging Torture and Impunity in Vietnam
-Ken MacLean
PART III. HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRAMS AND THE PROLIFERATION OF NONCONFRONTATIONAL
METHODS
Chapter 7. Rural-Urban Migration and Education in China: Unraveling
Responses to Injurious Experiences
-Ellen Desmet
Chapter 8. Localization "Light": The Travel and Transformation of
Nonempowering Human Rights Norms
-Tine Destrooper
Chapter 9. Global Rights, Local Risk: Community Advocacy on Right to Health
in China-Sara L. M. Davis and Charmain Mohamed
Afterword. Our Vernacular Futures
-Mark Goodale
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
-Sally Engle Merry
List of Abbreviations
Introduction. On Travel, Translation, and Transformation
-Tine Destrooper
PART I. INITIATIVES BY FORMAL HUMAN RIGHTS NORM-SETTERS
Chapter 1. The Escher-Human Rights Escalator: Technologies of the Local
-Vasuki Nesiah
Chapter 2. Accommodating Local Human Rights Practice at the UN Human Rights
Council
-Arne Vandenbogaerde
Chapter 3. Human Rights-Based Approaches to Development: The Local, Travel,
and Transformation
-Wouter Vandenhole-
PART II. INTERACTIONS BETWEEN SOCIAL MOBILIZATION AND LEGAL CLAIM-MAKING
Chapter 4. Lost Through Translation: Political Dialectics of Ecosocial and
Collective Rights in Ecuador
-Johannes M. WaldmÜller
Chapter 5. Upstreaming or Streamlining? Translating Social Movement Agendas
into Legal Claims in Nepal and the Dominican Republic
-Samuel MartÍnez
Chapter 6. New Visibilities: Challenging Torture and Impunity in Vietnam
-Ken MacLean
PART III. HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRAMS AND THE PROLIFERATION OF NONCONFRONTATIONAL
METHODS
Chapter 7. Rural-Urban Migration and Education in China: Unraveling
Responses to Injurious Experiences
-Ellen Desmet
Chapter 8. Localization "Light": The Travel and Transformation of
Nonempowering Human Rights Norms
-Tine Destrooper
Chapter 9. Global Rights, Local Risk: Community Advocacy on Right to Health
in China-Sara L. M. Davis and Charmain Mohamed
Afterword. Our Vernacular Futures
-Mark Goodale
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
Preface
-Sally Engle Merry
List of Abbreviations
Introduction. On Travel, Translation, and Transformation
-Tine Destrooper
PART I. INITIATIVES BY FORMAL HUMAN RIGHTS NORM-SETTERS
Chapter 1. The Escher-Human Rights Escalator: Technologies of the Local
-Vasuki Nesiah
Chapter 2. Accommodating Local Human Rights Practice at the UN Human Rights
Council
-Arne Vandenbogaerde
Chapter 3. Human Rights-Based Approaches to Development: The Local, Travel,
and Transformation
-Wouter Vandenhole-
PART II. INTERACTIONS BETWEEN SOCIAL MOBILIZATION AND LEGAL CLAIM-MAKING
Chapter 4. Lost Through Translation: Political Dialectics of Ecosocial and
Collective Rights in Ecuador
-Johannes M. WaldmÜller
Chapter 5. Upstreaming or Streamlining? Translating Social Movement Agendas
into Legal Claims in Nepal and the Dominican Republic
-Samuel MartÍnez
Chapter 6. New Visibilities: Challenging Torture and Impunity in Vietnam
-Ken MacLean
PART III. HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRAMS AND THE PROLIFERATION OF NONCONFRONTATIONAL
METHODS
Chapter 7. Rural-Urban Migration and Education in China: Unraveling
Responses to Injurious Experiences
-Ellen Desmet
Chapter 8. Localization "Light": The Travel and Transformation of
Nonempowering Human Rights Norms
-Tine Destrooper
Chapter 9. Global Rights, Local Risk: Community Advocacy on Right to Health
in China-Sara L. M. Davis and Charmain Mohamed
Afterword. Our Vernacular Futures
-Mark Goodale
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
-Sally Engle Merry
List of Abbreviations
Introduction. On Travel, Translation, and Transformation
-Tine Destrooper
PART I. INITIATIVES BY FORMAL HUMAN RIGHTS NORM-SETTERS
Chapter 1. The Escher-Human Rights Escalator: Technologies of the Local
-Vasuki Nesiah
Chapter 2. Accommodating Local Human Rights Practice at the UN Human Rights
Council
-Arne Vandenbogaerde
Chapter 3. Human Rights-Based Approaches to Development: The Local, Travel,
and Transformation
-Wouter Vandenhole-
PART II. INTERACTIONS BETWEEN SOCIAL MOBILIZATION AND LEGAL CLAIM-MAKING
Chapter 4. Lost Through Translation: Political Dialectics of Ecosocial and
Collective Rights in Ecuador
-Johannes M. WaldmÜller
Chapter 5. Upstreaming or Streamlining? Translating Social Movement Agendas
into Legal Claims in Nepal and the Dominican Republic
-Samuel MartÍnez
Chapter 6. New Visibilities: Challenging Torture and Impunity in Vietnam
-Ken MacLean
PART III. HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRAMS AND THE PROLIFERATION OF NONCONFRONTATIONAL
METHODS
Chapter 7. Rural-Urban Migration and Education in China: Unraveling
Responses to Injurious Experiences
-Ellen Desmet
Chapter 8. Localization "Light": The Travel and Transformation of
Nonempowering Human Rights Norms
-Tine Destrooper
Chapter 9. Global Rights, Local Risk: Community Advocacy on Right to Health
in China-Sara L. M. Davis and Charmain Mohamed
Afterword. Our Vernacular Futures
-Mark Goodale
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments







