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She is also associate department chair, faculty codirector of the center for human rights and global. Her research explores the role of law in urban life in the u. The quiet power of indicators edited by sally engle merry. The anthropology of human rights nyu wagner graduate school. Sally starr engle merry is an american anthropologist. Anthropological research on law since the early twentieth century has provided critically important perspectives on the way law is embedded in the social life of distinctive cultural groups. Indicators, human rights, and global governance berkeley law. Yet over the last decade, the concept of culture on which many of these insights depend has come under siege. The making of human rights policy on violence against women, anthropology news 48, 2324. Although gender violence was not a major public issue in 19thcentury hawaii, a substantial number of cases arrived at the lower courts.

Are human rights losing their ideological grip on citizens, activists, policymakers, and institutions worldwide. Translating international law into local justice chicago series in law and society merry, sally engle on. She is the author of several books, including colonizing hawaii. How does law transform family, sexuality, and community in the fractured social world characteristic of the colonizing process. There are difficult questions about what to measure, how to categorize phenomena, how much context to consider, and how to achieve commensurability despite variation. Governmentality and gender violence in hawaii in historical. Overdrive rakuten overdrive borrow ebooks, audiobooks, and videos from thousands of public libraries worldwide. Offenders were typically prosecuted promptly and punished. 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. Clearly, the production of such global norms is a social process, deeply. Jul 27, 2009 sally engle merry is professor in the department of anthropology and the institute for law and society at new york university.

The global of sally engle merry, silver of new york. Discover book depositorys huge selection of sally engle merry books online. Human rights and gender violence sally engle merry pdf. Sally engle merry, new york university, anthropology department, faculty member. With superb attentiveness to such an historical trajectory of human rights, sally engle merrys book human rights and gender violence. Sally engle merry reveals how, in hawaii, indigenous hawaiian law was. Legal consciousness among workingclass americans chicago. 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 president of the american ethnological society. Full text views reflects the number of pdf downloads, pdfs. Pdf setha low, sally engle merry, and contributors revisit the problems and possibilities of engaged anthropology in this comprehensive.

This cited by count includes citations to the following articles in scholar. In the last decade, the concept of legal pluralism has been applied to the study of social. Law, culture, and cultural appropriation by sally engle merry. 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, sally engle merry is published by university of chicago press. Sally engle merry is professor of anthropology, wellesley college, wellesley, massachusetts. Sally engle merry is silver professor of anthropology at nyu. Human rights law and the demonization of culture and.

It was simultaneously a means of transformation and a marker of the seductive idea of civilization. The nature of culture has been radically retheorized. She is also associate department chair, faculty co. The cultural process of law and getting justice and getting even, the latter published by the university of chicago press. She is the author of numerous books and articles on human rights, gender violence, and sex trafficking. Jul 19, 2016 discover book depositorys huge selection of sally engle merry books online. Anthropology department first floor conference room. Although such numbers convey an aura of objective truth and scientific validity, merry.

Sally engle merry, human rights and gender violence. Human rights transformation in practice seeks to answer this question in an edited volume that insists on the continued relevance of. Life in a neighborhood of strangers, getting justice and getting even. I particularly benefited from the insights on religion, sexuality and women. Sally engle merry is silver professor of anthropology. There are indicators of rule of law, indicators of violence against women, and indicators of economic development, among many others. Womens human rights and social movements in new york city with sally merry, peggy levitt and diana h.

Nov 28, 2012 serban, mihaela and engle merry, sally and levitt, peggy and yoon, diana, law from below. Merry, sally engle, the meaning and management of danger in a highcrime urban neighborhood. Human rights and gender violence is an ambitious study that investigates the tensions between global law and local justice. Introduction the intellectual odyssey of the concept of legal pluralism moves from the discovery of indigenous forms of law among re mote african villagers and new guinea tribesmen to debates con cerning the pluralistic qualities of law under advanced capitalism. Legal consciousness among workingclass americans, and the possibility of popular justice. Cambridge core sociolegal studies the quiet power of indicators edited by sally engle merry. Sally engle merry university of california, irvine. Merry, sally engle, getting justice and getting even. Introduction the intellectual odyssey of the concept of legal pluralism moves from the discovery of indigenous forms of law among remote african villagers and new guinea tribesmen to debates concerning the pluralistic qualities of law under advanced capitalism.

Read human rights and gender violence pdf translating international law into local justice by sally engle merry university of chicago. A case study of american community mediation, coedited with neal milner. Jul 28, 2006 sally engle merry is professor of anthropology, wellesley college, wellesley, massachusetts. 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. Sally engle merry reveals how, in hawaii, indigenous hawaiian law was displaced by a transplanted angloamerican law as global movements of capitalism, christianity, and imperialism swept across the islands. Pdf human rights are now the dominant approach to social justice globally. Sally engle merry is silver professor and professor of anthropology at new york university. Sally engle merry institute for international law and justice. Sally engle merry is silver professor of anthropology at new york university. The law was a cornerstone of the socalled civilizing process of nineteenthcentury colonialism. If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author. Bunting, annie and merry, sally engle, global regulation and local political struggles. Clearly, the production of such global norms is a social process, deeply shaped by local social movements. Sally engle merry, silver professor, department of anthropology.