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

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...

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1. VerfasserIn: Merry, Sally Engle 1944-2020 (Verfasst von)
Medienart: Druck Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Chicago London The University of Chicago Press 2016
In:Jahr: 2016
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Women > Violence against > Research > United States > Methodology
Human Trafficking > Research > United States > Methodology
Women > Violence against > Data processing
Human Trafficking > Data processing
numerical analysis > Data processing
Women > Violence against > Research > Methodology > United States
Human Trafficking > Research > Methodology > United States
quantitative research
Social indicators
USA > Misshandelte Frau > Menschenhandel > Zwangsprostitution > Menschenrechtsverletzung
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 225-242. Index
Physische Details:viii, 249 Seiten, 24 cm
ISBN:978-0-226-26128-7
978-0-226-26114-0