Seductions of quantification :
Merry, Sally Engle, 1944-
Seductions of quantification : measuring human rights, gender violence, and sex trafficking / Sally Engle Merry. - Chicago : $b The University of Chicago Press, 2016. - viii, 249 pages ; 24 cm - Chicago series in law and society . - Chicago series in law and society. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-242) 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.
"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."--Amazon.com.
9780226261287 022626128X
2015044525
GBB640712 bnb
017776823 Uk
Women--Violence against--Research--Methodology.--United States
Human trafficking--Research--Methodology.--United States
Women--Violence against--Data processing.
Human trafficking--Data processing.
Quantitative research.
Social indicators.
Numerical analysis--Data processing.
Numerical analysis--Data processing.
Quantitative research.
Social indicators.
Methods, techniques and organization of social science research.
United States.
HV6250 / .M47 2016
362.88082
Seductions of quantification : measuring human rights, gender violence, and sex trafficking / Sally Engle Merry. - Chicago : $b The University of Chicago Press, 2016. - viii, 249 pages ; 24 cm - Chicago series in law and society . - Chicago series in law and society. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-242) 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.
"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."--Amazon.com.
9780226261287 022626128X
2015044525
GBB640712 bnb
017776823 Uk
Women--Violence against--Research--Methodology.--United States
Human trafficking--Research--Methodology.--United States
Women--Violence against--Data processing.
Human trafficking--Data processing.
Quantitative research.
Social indicators.
Numerical analysis--Data processing.
Numerical analysis--Data processing.
Quantitative research.
Social indicators.
Methods, techniques and organization of social science research.
United States.
HV6250 / .M47 2016
362.88082