Title
Exposing indicators' Fragility: Sally Engle Merry's Contribution to the Study of Governance Indicators
Document Type
Article
Identifier Data
https://doi.org/10.1111/lasr.12509
Publisher
Wiley Online Library
Publication Source
Law & Society Review
Abstract
The work done by Sally Engle Merry around governance indicators provides a clear example of how her scholarship has been original and impactful. She devoted more than a decade to studying the emergence and use of indicators, a widely used strategy for assessing governance mechanisms. Her body of work on indicators includes three books and more than a dozen journal articles and book chapters. These contributions have reshaped the discourse and forced readers to confront the hidden truth about indicators: their imperfect nature as with any other human construct. I, selfishly, have borrowed from her work and used her lenses in contributing to the study and production of human rights indicators. I see my borrowing as a tribute to a must-read scholar whose ideas are worth entertaining and sharing through our work.
