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The seductions of quantification : measuring human rights, gender violence, and sex trafficking, Sally Engle Merry
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- Summary
- "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. Although such numbers convey an aura of objective truth and scientific validity, Merry argues persuasively that measurement systems constitute a form of power by incorporating theories about social change in their design but rarely explicitly acknowledging them. For instance, the US State Department's Trafficking in Persons Report, which ranks countries in terms of their compliance with antitrafficking activities, assumes that prosecuting traffickers as criminals is an effective corrective strategy -- overlooking cultures where women and children are frequently sold by their own families. As Merry shows, indicators are indeed seductive in their promise of providing concrete knowledge about how the world works, but they are implemented most successfully when paired with context-rich qualitative accounts grounded in local knowledge." --
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- viii, 249 pages
- Contents
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- A world of quantification
- Indicators as a technology of knowledge
- Measuring violence against women
- Categorizing violence against women: the cultural work of commensuration
- Measuring the unmeasurable: the US Trafficking in Persons Reports
- Knowledge effects and governance effects of the Trafficking in Persons Reports
- Human rights indicators: translating law into policy
- Conclusions
- Isbn
- 9780226261287
- Label
- The seductions of quantification : measuring human rights, gender violence, and sex trafficking
- Title
- The seductions of quantification
- Title remainder
- measuring human rights, gender violence, and sex trafficking
- Statement of responsibility
- Sally Engle Merry
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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. Although such numbers convey an aura of objective truth and scientific validity, Merry argues persuasively that measurement systems constitute a form of power by incorporating theories about social change in their design but rarely explicitly acknowledging them. For instance, the US State Department's Trafficking in Persons Report, which ranks countries in terms of their compliance with antitrafficking activities, assumes that prosecuting traffickers as criminals is an effective corrective strategy -- overlooking cultures where women and children are frequently sold by their own families. As Merry shows, indicators are indeed seductive in their promise of providing concrete knowledge about how the world works, but they are implemented most successfully when paired with context-rich qualitative accounts grounded in local knowledge." --
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- 1944-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Merry, Sally Engle
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Chicago series in law and society
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Women
- Human trafficking
- Women
- Human trafficking
- Quantitative research
- Social indicators
- Numerical analysis
- Label
- The seductions of quantification : measuring human rights, gender violence, and sex trafficking, Sally Engle Merry
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-242) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- A world of quantification -- Indicators as a technology of knowledge -- Measuring violence against women -- Categorizing violence against women: the cultural work of commensuration -- Measuring the unmeasurable: the US Trafficking in Persons Reports -- Knowledge effects and governance effects of the Trafficking in Persons Reports -- Human rights indicators: translating law into policy -- Conclusions
- Control code
- ocn920017479
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- viii, 249 pages
- Isbn
- 9780226261287
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
- (OCoLC)920017479
- Label
- The seductions of quantification : measuring human rights, gender violence, and sex trafficking, Sally Engle Merry
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-242) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- A world of quantification -- Indicators as a technology of knowledge -- Measuring violence against women -- Categorizing violence against women: the cultural work of commensuration -- Measuring the unmeasurable: the US Trafficking in Persons Reports -- Knowledge effects and governance effects of the Trafficking in Persons Reports -- Human rights indicators: translating law into policy -- Conclusions
- Control code
- ocn920017479
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- viii, 249 pages
- Isbn
- 9780226261287
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
- (OCoLC)920017479
Subject
- Human trafficking -- Research -- United States -- Methodology
- Numerical analysis -- Data processing
- Quantitative research
- Social indicators
- Women -- Violence against | Data processing
- Women -- Violence against | Research -- United States -- Methodology
- Human trafficking -- Data processing
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