The Complexity of Human Rights - From Vernacularization to Quantification

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.>

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• Authors: Philip Alston
• Assisted by: Philip Alston (Editor), Alston Philip (Editor)
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.02.2024
• EAN: 9781509972869
• ISBN: 978-1-5099-7286-9
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 232 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LAW / International, LAW / Public, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Civil rights & citizenship, Human rights, civil rights, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, Law & society, Law and society, sociology of law