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The seductions of quantification : measuring human rights, gender violence, and sex trafficking Sally Engle Merry.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Publisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016Description: 249 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780226261287 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HV6250.4.W65 MER
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.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Law Library Open Shelf HV6250.4.W65 MER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 147158 Available BK133353

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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