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Book Title
The Seductions of Quantification
Title
The Seductions of Quantification
Subtitle
Measuring Human Rights, Gender Violence, and Sex Trafficking
EAN
9780226261287
ISBN
9780226261287
Genre
Society & Culture
Topic
Gender Sex & Relationships
Release Year
2016
Release Date
20/06/2016
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Length
16mm
Series
Chicago Series in Law and Society
Subject Area
Sexual Abuse
Publication Name
The Seductions of Quantification: Measuring Human Rights, Gender Violence, and Sex Trafficking
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Subject
Zoology, Anthropology
Publication Year
2016
Type
Textbook
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
228 mm
Author
Sally Engle Merry
Item Weight
413 g
Item Width
152 mm
Number of Pages
272 Pages

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We live in a world where seemingly everything can be measured. We rely on indicators to translate social phenomena into simple, quantified terms, which in turn can be used to guide individuals, organizations, and governments in establishing policy. Yet counting things requires finding a way to make them comparable. And in the process of translating the confusion of social life into neat categories, we inevitably strip it of context and meaning-and risk hiding or distorting as much as we reveal. 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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The University of Chicago Press
ISBN-13
9780226261287
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Number of Pages
272 Pages
Publication Name
The Seductions of Quantification: Measuring Human Rights, Gender Violence, and Sex Trafficking
Language
English
Subject
Zoology, Anthropology
Publication Year
2016
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Sexual Abuse
Author
Sally Engle Merry
Format
Paperback

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228 mm
Item Weight
413 g
Item Width
152 mm

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Title_Author
Sally Engle Merry
Series Title
Chicago Series in Law and Society

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