Transnational Human Rights and Local Activism: Mapping the Middle
Transnational Human Rights and Local Activism: Mapping the Middle
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跨国人权与地方行动主义：绘制中间图
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2006
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S. Merry
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对暴力侵害妇女行为采取人权办法等跨国思想如何在当地社会环境中变得有意义？他们如何跨越世界各地对人权的认识与当地对性别和家庭的社会文化理解之间的差距？社区领导人、非政府组织参与者和社会运动积极分子等中介机构在从全球舞台向下和从地方舞台向上传播思想方面发挥着关键作用。这些人既了解跨国人权的世界，也了解当地的文化习俗，他们可以从两方面看问题。他们的强大之处在于，他们在不同文化的社会世界之间充当知识中间人，但他们也容易受到国家和社区的操纵和颠覆。在这篇文章中，我对翻译过程进行了理论化，并认为对译者的人类学分析有助于解释人权思想和干预措施如何在世界各地传播并改变社会生活。
How do transnational ideas such as human rights approaches to violence against women become meaningful in local social settings? How do they move across the gap between a cosmopolitan awareness of human rights and local sociocultural understandings of gender and family? Intermediaries such as community leaders, nongovernmental organization participants, and social movement activists play a critical role in translating ideas from the global arena down and from local arenas up. These are people who understand both the worlds of transnational human rights and local cultural practices and who can look both ways. They are powerful in that they serve as knowledge brokers between culturally distinct social worlds, but they are also vulnerable to manipulation and subversion by states and communities. In this article, I theorize the process of translation and argue that anthropological analysis of translators helps to explain how human rights ideas and interventions circulate around the world and transform social life.