Sally engle merry human rights and gender violence pdf

Translating international law into local justice, attempts to show the relationship that exists between international rights and local culture. Gender violence and human rights enquires into gender violence and the efficacy of human rights advocacy and related reformist strategies in three western pacific countries. The anthropology of human rights nyu wagner graduate. Sally engle merry, silver professor, department of anthropology. She tries to express the way in which local government complicates the issue of gender. Translating international law into local justice ebook written by sally engle merry. Constructing a global lawviolence against women and the.

Staley prize for her book human rights and gender violence. A muchneeded exploration of how local cultures appropriate and enact international human rights law. Sally engle merry is the silver professor in the department of anthropology at new york university and the faculty codirector of the center for human rights and global justice at the new york university school of law. Request pdf on mar 1, 2007, elizabeth heger boyle and others published. Her recent books include human rights and gender violence. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read human rights and gender violence. Sally engle merry s most popular book is human rights and gender violence. As a result, substantial discrepancies exist between what is decided in the halls of the united nations and what women experience on a daily basis in their communities. Human rights and gender violence sally engle merry pdf. Domestic violence, rape, murder, wartime sexual assault, prison and police violence, murder, female genital cutting, female infanticide, honor killings. She is also associate department chair, faculty codirector of the center for human rights and global. 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. 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. Translating international law into local justice, sally engle merry is published by university of chicago press.

Human rights and gender violence sally engle merry. Sally engle merry is professor of anthropology and director of the law and society program at new york university. Human rights law and the legal protection of women from violence are still fairly new concepts. Gender violence in particular, she argues, is rooted in deep cultural and religious beliefs, so change is often vehemently resisted by the communities perpetrating the acts of aggression. Human rights and gender violence the university of chicago press. Cambridge, 2007, and human rights transformations in practice coedited with tina destrooper. Sally engle merry, professor of anthropology and affiliated faculty at nyu school of law, won the school for advanced researchs 2010 j. Sally engle merry, the seduction of quantification. 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. Sally engle merry, human rights and gender violence. Human rights and gender violence is an ambitious study that investigates the tensions between global law and local justice. Merry attempts to provide a model for the cultural translation of such rights into transformative rights consciousness, despite. Read human rights and gender violence translating international law into local justice by sally engle merry available from rakuten kobo. She is also associate department chair, faculty codirector of the center for human rights and global justice at the new york university school of law, and past.

Merry attempts to provide a model for the cultural translation of such rights into transformative rights. Merry transnational human rights and local activism 39 claim that asian values are distinct from human rights see bauer and bell 1999. In tackling such questions, the writings of sally engle merry and. Sally engle merry s recent books include colonizing hawaii princeton, 2000, human rights and gender violence chicago, 2006, gender violence. Translating international law into local justice, sally engle merry chicago. Sally engle merry is the silver professor of anthropology at new york university and author of several books, including the seductions of quantification. With superb attentiveness to such an historical trajectory of human rights, sally engle merrys book human rights and gender violence. Sally engle merry is a faculty director of the center for human rights and global justice. Chicago series in law and society, university of chicago press, chicago. Kindle by sally engle merry 1900 kindle edition includes vatcoronadotm telescopes the patrick moore practical astronomy series the seductions of quantification measuring human rights gender violence and sex trafficking. Sally engle merry university of california, irvine. 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.

Her research explores the role of law in urban life in the u. View your shopping cart browse penn press titles in human rights. Human rights and gender violence by sally engle merry. Madelaine adelman, arizona state university marianne. Measuring human rights, gender violence, and sex trafficking. Tracking law between the local and the global, coedited with mark goodale. The seductions of quantification by sally engle merry. Each case study provides a powerful illustration of merrys key arguments. Translating international law into local justice chicago series in law and society merry, sally engle on. Read human rights and gender violence pdf translating international law into local justice by sally engle merry university of chicago. If you previously purchased this article, log in to readcube.

And that, essentially, is the topic of sally engle merry s book, the seductions of quantification. Sally engle merry institute for international law and. Human rights transformation in practice tine destrooper. Translating international law into local justice 2006, and the practice of human rights. A international law into local justice 1223 words 5 pages. 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. 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. Read human rights and gender violence pdf translating international law into local justice by sally engle merry university of chicago press human rights. The term gender violence is inspired by sally engle merry s human rights and gender violence and gender violence. Constructing a global law violence against women and the human rights system. Merry, sally engle, the meaning and management of danger in a highcrime urban neighborhood. There are indicators of rule of law, indicators of violence against women, and indicators of economic development, among many others.

Sally engle merry offers an insiders perspective on how human rights law holds authorities accountable for the protection of citizens even while reinforcing and expanding state power. Human rights and gender violence investigates the tensions between global law and local justice from an insiders perspective. The global travel of womens human rights sally engle merry. Through personal accounts and ethnographic case studies, sally engle merry provides a vivid portrait of many forms of violence in gendered relationships. A cultural perspective blackwell, 2009, the practice of human rights, coedited with mark goodale. 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. The making of human rights policy on violence against women, anthropology news 48, 2324. Sally engle merry is silver professor and professor of anthropology at new york university.

There are difficult questions about what to measure, how to categorize phenomena, how much context to consider, and how to achieve commensurability despite variation. Translating international law into local justice is a significant contribution to the study of genderoriented violence in the context of global north and global south dialogues for the advancement of universal human rights. Books by sally engle merry author of human rights and. Ebook the seductions of quantification measuring human. She is the silver professor of anthropology and faculty codirector of the center for human rights and global justice at the new york university school of law in the past, she has been president of the american ethnological society, the law and society association, and the association for political and legal anthropology. With the seductions of quantification, leading legal anthropologist sally engle merry investigates the techniques by which information is gathered and analyzed in the production of global indicators on human rights, gender violence, and sex trafficking. Translating international law into local justice by sally engle merry, american journal of sociology 112, no. 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 ebook by sally engle.

Human rights and gender violence is an ambitious study that investigates the tensions between global law and as a result, substantial discrepancies exist between what is decided in the halls of the united nations and what women experience on a daily basis in their communities. How do norms and ideas like human rights or gender equality travel from one place to another. Translating international law into local justice, by sally engle merry chicago. Sally starr engle merry is an american anthropologist. She is the author of five books, including human rights and gender violence, also published by the university of chicago press.