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Book SynopsisTrade Review"With highly recognized contributors, including many with a great deal of practical experience,
Human Rights Transformation in Practice merits a wide readership throughout the field of social science research into human rights." * Barbara Oomen, Utrecht University *
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Human Rights Transformation in Practice takes on an important topic, which is at the leading edge of the anthropology of law and sociolegal studies: the question of how human rights travel and change. It is an outstanding contribution to the field, subjecting the ideas of vernacularization, translation, and transformation of human rights to close examination and reflection." * Ronald Niezen, McGill University *
Table of ContentsPreface
—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
