TY - JOUR
T1 - Localization of human rights of people with disabilities
T2 - The case of jewish ultra-orthodox people in israel
AU - Orr, Zvika
AU - Unger, Shifra
AU - Finkelstein, Adi
N1 - Funding Information:
The first author is deeply indebted to Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Karen Na-kamura, and Daphna Golan for their advice and inspiration, and to the faculty and staff of UC Berkeley Department of Anthropology and Berkeley Center for Social Medicine for their helpful feedback and support. He also thanks Orit Sharoni for her excellent research assistance and his research seminar students for their help. The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support provided by the Israeli Council for Higher Education; The Minerva Center for Human Rights at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; and the Jerusalem College of Technology.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 by Johns Hopkins University Press.
PY - 2021/2/1
Y1 - 2021/2/1
N2 - This article examines how the concept of human rights of people with disabilities is introduced, localized, reinterpreted, and contextualized in religious conservative communities. By analyzing the case of Jewish ultra-orthodox (Haredi) communities in Israel, the article illuminates the stakehold-ers’ translation tactics that result in hybridization of transnational and local ideas. Professionals in social and therapeutic fields play a decisive role in this process. While prior research has depicted localization as a pragmatic compromise on the part of the localizers, this case demonstrates that in religious contexts localization is not a constraint but reflects an essential connection between distinct moral worlds.
AB - This article examines how the concept of human rights of people with disabilities is introduced, localized, reinterpreted, and contextualized in religious conservative communities. By analyzing the case of Jewish ultra-orthodox (Haredi) communities in Israel, the article illuminates the stakehold-ers’ translation tactics that result in hybridization of transnational and local ideas. Professionals in social and therapeutic fields play a decisive role in this process. While prior research has depicted localization as a pragmatic compromise on the part of the localizers, this case demonstrates that in religious contexts localization is not a constraint but reflects an essential connection between distinct moral worlds.
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U2 - 10.1353/hrq.2021.0003
DO - 10.1353/hrq.2021.0003
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85102695717
SN - 0275-0392
VL - 43
SP - 93
EP - 116
JO - Human Rights Quarterly
JF - Human Rights Quarterly
IS - 1
ER -