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Translating Human Rights into Muslim Vernaculars

Translating Human Rights into Muslim Vernaculars <jats:sec><jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Using Islam as an example, I show how interpreters can develop human rights within their own culture even as they draw on extra-local ideas and practices. They can do so despite points of significant conflict between the local culture and that of human rights, in ways that need to resonate with the local culture yet also challenge it. Translators can do the work they do because they have the “dual consciousness” of outside intermediaries and local participants.</jats:p> </jats:sec> http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Comparative Sociology Brill

Translating Human Rights into Muslim Vernaculars

Comparative Sociology , Volume 7 (4): 457 – Jan 1, 2008

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 2008 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
1569-1322
eISSN
1569-1330
DOI
10.1163/156913308X289069
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Abstract

<jats:sec><jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Using Islam as an example, I show how interpreters can develop human rights within their own culture even as they draw on extra-local ideas and practices. They can do so despite points of significant conflict between the local culture and that of human rights, in ways that need to resonate with the local culture yet also challenge it. Translators can do the work they do because they have the “dual consciousness” of outside intermediaries and local participants.</jats:p> </jats:sec>

Journal

Comparative SociologyBrill

Published: Jan 1, 2008

Keywords: OUTSIDE CHALLENGES TO NORMATIVE SYSTEMS; CULTURAL CHANGE; ISLAM; DEMOCRATIZED ACCESS TO LOCAL INTERPRETATION; HUMAN RIGHTS

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