Human Rights Transformation in Practice

Tine Destrooper is the director of the Flemish Peace Institute and a visiting scholar at the Human Rights Centre of Ghent University. She is author of Come Hell or High Water: Feminism and the Legacy of Armed Conflict in Central America. Sally Engle Merry is the Silver Professor of Anthropology at New York University and author of several books, including The Seductions of Quantification: Measuring Human Rights, Gender Violence, and Sex Trafficking.

• Preface-Sally Engle MerryList of AbbreviationsIntroduction. On Travel, Translation, and Transformation-Tine DestrooperPART I. INITIATIVES BY FORMAL HUMAN RIGHTS NORM-SETTERSChapter 1. The Escher-Human Rights Escalator: Technologies of the Local-Vasuki NesiahChapter 2. Accommodating Local Human Rights Practice at the UN Human Rights Council-Arne VandenbogaerdeChapter 3. Human Rights-Based Approaches to Development: The Local, Travel, and Transformation-Wouter Vandenhole-PART II. INTERACTIONS BETWEEN SOCIAL MOBILIZATION AND LEGAL CLAIM-MAKINGChapter 4. Lost Through Translation: Political Dialectics of Ecosocial and Collective Rights in Ecuador-Johannes M. WaldmÜllerChapter 5. Upstreaming or Streamlining? Translating Social Movement Agendas into Legal Claims in Nepal and the Dominican Republic-Samuel MartÍnezChapter 6. New Visibilities: Challenging Torture and Impunity in Vietnam-Ken MacLeanPART III. HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRAMS AND THE PROLIFERATION OF NONCONFRONTATIONAL METHODSChapter 7. Rural-Urban Migration and Education in China: Unraveling Responses to Injurious Experiences-Ellen DesmetChapter 8. Localization "Light": The Travel and Transformation of Nonempowering Human Rights Norms-Tine DestrooperChapter 9. Global Rights, Local Risk: Community Advocacy on Right to Health in China-Sara L. M. Davis and Charmain MohamedAfterword. Our Vernacular Futures-Mark GoodaleList of ContributorsIndexAcknowledgments

"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) "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)