Edited by Tine Destrooper and Sally Engle Merry

Preface
-Sally Engle Merry
List of Abbreviations
Introduction. On Travel, Translation, and Transformation
-Tine Destrooper
PART I. INITIATIVES BY FORMAL HUMAN RIGHTS NORM-SETTERS
Chapter 1. The Escher-Human Rights Escalator: Technologies of the Local
-Vasuki Nesiah
Chapter 2. Accommodating Local Human Rights Practice at the UN Human Rights Council
-Arne Vandenbogaerde
Chapter 3. Human Rights-Based Approaches to Development: The Local, Travel, and Transformation
-Wouter Vandenhole-
PART II. INTERACTIONS BETWEEN SOCIAL MOBILIZATION AND LEGAL CLAIM-MAKING
Chapter 4. Lost Through Translation: Political Dialectics of Ecosocial and Collective Rights in Ecuador
-Johannes M. Waldmüller
Chapter 5. Upstreaming or Streamlining? Translating Social Movement Agendas into Legal Claims in Nepal and the Dominican Republic
-Samuel Martínez
Chapter 6. New Visibilities: Challenging Torture and Impunity in Vietnam
-Ken MacLean
PART III. HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRAMS AND THE PROLIFERATION OF NONCONFRONTATIONAL METHODS
Chapter 7. Rural-Urban Migration and Education in China: Unraveling Responses to Injurious Experiences
-Ellen Desmet
Chapter 8. Localization "Light": The Travel and Transformation of Nonempowering Human Rights Norms
-Tine Destrooper
Chapter 9. Global Rights, Local Risk: Community Advocacy on Right to Health in China-Sara L. M. Davis and Charmain Mohamed
Afterword. Our Vernacular Futures
-Mark Goodale
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments