Localizing the Global: A Comparative Study of Women's Human Rights

这是对印度、中国、尼日利亚和秘鲁四个地点致力于改善妇女人权的具体社会运动的比较研究。 该项目研究自上而下引入人权概念与地方行为者和运动自下而上动员这些概念之间的交叉点。 核心假设是，地方社会正义运动并不完全采用人权框架，而是在全球框架和地方框架之间达成妥协。这些译者面临的核心难题是，为了让人权思想在当地被接受，他们需要与已经存在的关于关系、义务、宗教和国家责任的思想相匹配。另一方面，人权实践的本质是它能够重新界定特定个人和国家的权利和责任。 这一对地方组织对妇女权利采取跨国人权办法的四个地点的比较人种学研究将有助于查明全球文化传播的机制，并将通过审查法律的动员，并对全球人权制度的出现所产生的法律的多元化形式提供新的见解。

This is a comparative study of specific social movements working to improve women's human rights in four sites in India, China, Nigeria, and Peru. The project studies the intersection between the top-down introduction of human rights conceptions and the bottom-up mobilization of these concepts by local actors and movements. The central hypothesis is that local social justice movements do not adopt the human rights framework in its entirety but, instead, negotiate a compromise between global and local frameworks. The central conundrum these translators face is that in order for human rights ideas to become accepted locally, they need to match the ideas about relationships, duties, religion, and state responsibility already in place. On the other hand, the essence of human rights practice is its capacity to redefine the rights and responsibilities of particular individuals and the state. This comparative, ethnographic study of four sites in which transnational human rights approaches to women's rights are being adopted by local organizations will help to identify the mechanisms for diffusion of global culture and will contribute to the rich sociolegal theory of rights and rights consciousness by examining legal mobilization, and provide new insight into the forms of legal pluralism that are produced by the emergence of a global human rights system.