The seductions of quantification : measuring human rights, gender violence, and sex trafficking /

The seductions of quantification : measuring human rights, gender violence, and sex trafficking /

"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...

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Main Author: Merry, Sally Engle, 1944-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016
Series:Chicago series in law and society
Subjects:
Women > Violence against > Research > United States > Methodology
Human trafficking > Research > United States > Methodology
Women > Violence against > Data processing
Human trafficking > Data processing
Quantitative research
Social indicators
Numerical analysis > Data processing
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Table of 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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