Human Rights & Gender Violence: Translating International Law into Local Justice
Lazarus-Black, Mindie, Law & Society Review
Human Rights & Gender Violence: Translating International Law into Local Justice. By Sally Engle Merry. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. ix+269. $55.00 cloth; $20.00 paper.
"Cultural capital," Bourdieu taught us, denotes critical and diacritical markings of social status, distinguishing us from them. In Human Rights 6? Gender Violence: Translating International Law into Local Justice, Merry invites us to rethink culture as capital, with provocative implications. In the new international order, culture, like capital, is at once a resource and the instantiation of complex relationships embedded in time and place. And, in the current global movement to promote …
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Publication information:
Article title: Human Rights & Gender Violence: Translating International Law into Local Justice.
Contributors: Lazarus-Black, Mindie - Author.
Journal title: Law & Society Review.
Volume: 40.
Issue: 4
Publication date: December 2006.
Page number: 979+.
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