Sally Engle Merry, née le Merry, Sally Engle, 1944- sur authorities.loc.gov/ (Library of Congress Authorities), morte le , est une anthropologue américaine. Elle fut professeur d’anthropologie à l’université de New York et directrice du Programme Droit et sociétéNew York University : http://as.nyu.edu/object/sally.merry. Elle a enseigné auparavant au Collège de Wellesley. Merry fut professeur invitée dans de nombreuses institutions académiques des États-Unis et à l'université du peuple de Chine de Pékin en 2001.
Parcours académique En 1966 Sally Engle Merry obtient la licence au Wellesley College à Wellesley (Massachusetts) puis en 1967 une maitrise à l'Université Yale de New Haven suivi en 1978 d'un doctorat à l'université Brandeis de Waltham (Massachusetts).
Travaux Ses travaux explorent le rôle de la loi dans le champ de l’urbanité aux États-Unis, mais aussi dans le champ de la colonisation et du transnationalisme. Ses études les plus récentes posent un œil critique sur les droits humains et le genre dans une optique transnationale avec une approche comparative. Notamment, Merry s’est consacrée à l’étude de la question des droits humains et des lois les entourant telle qu’elle est interprétée en Chine, en Inde, au Nigeria et au PérouWellesley Centers for Women : http://www.wcwonline.org/keypeople/merry.html et Wellesley College : http://www.wellesley.edu/Anthropology/sm.html.
Les parutions récentes de Sally Engle Merry sont Colonizing Hawai’i: The Cultural Power of Law (Princeton University Press, 2000), titre ayant reçu le prix J. Willard Hurst de l’Association Loi et Société (USA) en 2001 ; Human Rights and Gender Violence: Translating International Law into Local Justice (University of Chicago Press, 2006) et The Practice of Human Rights: Tracking Law between the Local and the Global (Cambridge University Press, 2007), en coédition avec Mark Goodale. Elle est l’auteur ou l’éditrice de plusieurs autres ouvrages.
Sally Engle Merry est l’auteur de nombreux articles sur la question du droit des femmes dans le cadre plus large des droits humains, sur la violence faites aux femmes et sur les processus locaux nés de la réflexion sur les droits humains translocaux.
Ancienne présidente de l’Association Droit et société et de l’Association d’anthropologie politique et légale, Sally Engle Merry siège aux conseils exécutifs de l’Association américaine d’anthropologie et de l’Association Droit et société (USA). En 2007, elle reçoit de l’Association Droit et société le prix Kalven pour ses contributions scientifiques.
Publications Ouvrages 1981 Urban Danger : Life in a Neighborhood of Strangers. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press. 1990 Getting Justice and Getting Even : Legal Consciousness Among Working-Class Americans. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. 1993 The Possibility of Popular Justice : A Case Study of American Community Mediation. Codirigé avec Neal Milner. Ann Arbor, MI: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2000 Colonizing Hawai'i : The Cultural Power of Law. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press. 2004 Law and Empire in the Pacific : Hawai'i and Fiji. Codirigé avec Donald Brenneis. School of American Research Press, Santa Fe, NM 2006 Human Rights and Gender Violence : Translating International Law into Local Justice. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2007 The Practice of Human Rights : Tracking Law Between the Global and the Local. Codirigé avec with Mark Goodale. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2008 Gender Violence : A Cultural Introduction. London: Blackwell.
Articles 1979 "Going to Court: Strategies of Dispute Management in an American Urban Neighborhood." Law and Society Review 13:4 891 925. 1980 "Racial Integration in an Urban Neighborhood: The Social Organization of Strangers." Human Organization 39: 59 69. 1980 "Manipulating Anonymity: Streetwalkers' Strategies for Safety in the City." Ethnos 45: 157 176. 1981 "Defensible Space Undefended: Social Factors in Crime Control through Environmental Design." Urban Affairs Quarterly 16: 397 422. 1982 "The Social Organization of Mediation in Non Industrial Societies: Implications for Informal Community Justice in America." In The Politics of Informal Justice Vol. II, Comparative Studies Richard L. Abel (ed.) New York : Academic Press. 1982 "The Articulation of Legal Spheres." In African Women and the Law: Historical Perspectives. M. Wright and M. Hay (eds.) Papers on Africa, Vol. VI, Boston University African Studies Center. 1982 "Defining `Success' in the Neighborhood Justice Movement." Neighborhood Justice: Assessment of an Emerging Idea. Pp. 172 193 in Malcolm Feeley and Roman Tomasic (eds.) New York: Longman. 1982 "The Future of Urban Danger." In Cities and the 21st Century. Gary Gappert and Richard V. Knight (eds.) 23rd Urban Affairs Annual Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications. 1984 "Rethinking Gossip and Scandal." In Toward a General Theory of Social Control. Vol. II. Donald Black (ed.) New York: Academic Press. 1984 "Anthropology and the Study of Alternative Dispute Resolution." Journal of Legal Education 34: 277 284. Journal issue received Second Prize from the Center for Public Resources, 1985. 1984 "What do Plaintiffs Want?: Reexamining the Concept of Dispute." (Susan Silbey, coauteur) Justice System Journal 9: 151 179. Special Issue on Alternative Dispute Resolution. 1985 "Concepts of Law and Justice among Working Class Americans: Ideology as Culture." Legal Studies Forum 11: 59 71. 1986 "Mediator Settlement Strategies." Susan S. Silbey, coauteur. Law and Policy. 8: 7 32. 1986 "Everyday Understandings of the Law in Working class America." American Ethnologist 13: 253 270. 1987 "Crowding, Conflict, and Neighborhood Regulation" in Neighborhood and Community Environments. Vol. 9 in Human Behavior and Environment, Advances in Theory and Research. Irwin Altman and Abraham Wandersman (eds.). New York: Plenum Press. 1987 "Disputing without Culture: Review Essay of Dispute Resolution." Harvard Law Review 100: 2057 - 2073. 1987 "The Culture and Practice of Mediation in Parent/Child Conflicts." Negotiation Journal 3:411-422. 1988 "The Mediation Process in Family and Neighborhood Disputes." Group Analysis Quarterly 21 (1): 47-56. 1988 "The Mediation Process: Myth and Practice." Mediation and Criminal Justice: Victims, Offenders, and Community. Martin Wright and Burt Galaway (eds.) London: Sage. 1988 "Urban Danger: Life in a Neighborhood of Strangers." Urban Life: Readings in Urban Anthropology. First, Second, and Third Editions. George Gmelch and Walter Zenner (eds.) Waveland Press. 1995. 1988 "From the Editors" écrit avec d'autres auteurs. Special Issue of the Law and Society Review on Law and Ideology 22:4. 1988 "Legal Pluralism." Law and Society Review 22: 869-896. Translated into Chinese (2003) for Global Law Review by Zhang Guanzi. Translated into Spanish (2006) and reprinted in Nuevo Pensamiento Jurídico, published by Siglo del Hombre and Los Andes School of Law, Columbia 1988 "Ideological Production: The Making of Community Mediation." Law and Society Review 22: 709-37 (Christine Harrington, coauteur). 1989 "Mediation in Cross-cultural Perspective." The Mediation of Disputes: Empirical Studies in the Resolution of Social Conflict. Ken Kressel and Dean Pruitt, Eds. San Francisco: Jossy-Bass. 1990 "Law as Fair, Law as Help: The Texture of Legitimacy in American Society" in New Directions in the Study of Law, Justice, and Social Control. School of Justice Studies, Arizona State University (eds.), Plenum Press. 1990 "The Discourses of Mediation and the Power of Naming." Yale Journal of Law and Humanities 2:1-35. 1990 "The Culture of Judging," Review Essay on The Anthropology of Justice: Law as Culture in Islamic Society. Lawrence Rosen. Columbia Law Review 90: 2311-2328. 1990 "Varieties of Mediation Performance: Replicating Differences in Access to Justice." In Access to Civil Justice. Allan C. Hutchinson (ed.) Toronto: Carswell. 1991 "Law and Colonialism: Review Essay." Law and Society Review 25: 879-922. 1992 "Anthropology, Law and Transnational Processes." Annual Reviews in Anthropology 21: 357-379. 1992 "Popular Justice and the Ideology of Social Transformation." Social and Legal Studies 1: 161-76. 1992 "Culture, Power, and the Discourse of Law" New York Law School Law Review 37:209-229. 1993 "Sorting Out Popular Justice." in The Possibility of Popular Justice: A Case Study of American Community Mediation. Sally Merry and Neal Milner, editors. Ann Arbor, MI: Univ. of Michigan Press. 1993 "Mending Walls and Building Fences: Constructing the Private Neighborhood." Journal of Legal Pluralism 33: 71-91. 1994 "Grassroots Mediation: A Portrait of Albie Davis" in When Talk Works: Profiles of Master Mediators, Deborah Kolb, editor. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. 1994 "Courts as Performances: Domestic Violence Hearings in a Hawai'i Family Court." pp. 35 – 59 in Contested States: Law, Hegemony, and Resistance. Susan Hirsch and Mindie Lazarus-Black, eds. New York: Routledge. 1994 "Narrating Domestic Violence: Producing the "Truth" of Violence in 19th- and 20th-Century Hawaiian Courts." Law and Social Inquiry 19:967-993. 1995 "Resistance and the Cultural Power of Law." Presidential Address, Law and Society Review 29: 11-27. 1995 "Wife Battering and the Ambiguities of Rights." pp. 271–307 in Identities, Politics, and Rights. Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought. Austin Sarat and Thomas Kearns, eds. Ann Arbor, MI: Univ. of Michigan Press. 1995 "Gender Violence and Legally Engendered Selves." Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 2:49-73. 1997 "Legal Vernacularization and Transnational Culture: the Ka Ho'okolokolonui Kanaka Maoli, Hawai'i 1993." Human Rights, Culture and Context: Anthropological Perspectives. Richard Wilson, ed. pp. 28–49. Pluto Press. 1998 “Global Human Rights and Local Social Movements in a Legally Plural World." Canadian Journal of Law and Society 12: 247-271. 1998. "Law, Culture, and Cultural Appropriation." Yale Journal of Law and Humanities. 10:101-129. 1998. "The Criminalization of Everyday Life." pp. 14 – 40 in Everyday Practices and Trouble Cases. Austin Sarat, ed. Northwestern Univ. Press. 1999. "Pluralizing Paradigms: From Gluckman to Foucault." Polar: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 22: 108-115. 1999. "Criminalization and Gender: The Changing Governance of Sexuality and Gender Violence in Hawai'i." pp. 75–103 in Governable Places: Readings on Governmentality and Crime Control. Russell Smandych, ed. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate/Dartmouth. 1999 "Il controllo della spazio ai confini dell'impero." (Spatial Governmentality on the Fringes of Empire) Sociologia del diritto 28 (3): 159-188. Published also as a volume of the series Sociologica del diritto, edited by Angeli, Milan . 2000 "Globalizations Past: From Lahaina to London in the 1820s." pp. 81– 101. Globalizing Institutions: Case Studies in Regulation and Innovation. Edited by Jane Jenson and Boaventura de Sousa Santos. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate/Dartmouth. 2000 "Mennonite Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation: A Cultural Analysis." pp. 203–217 in From the Ground Up. John Paul Lederach and Cynthia Sampson, Eds. New York: Oxford University Press. 2000 “Crossing Boundaries: Methodological Challenges for Ethnography in the Twenty-first Century.” Polar: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 23 (2): 127-134. 2001 “Racialized Identities and the Law." pp. 120–139 in Cultural Diversity in the United States: A Critical Reader. Edited by Ida Susser and Thomas C. Patterson. New York: Blackwell Publishers. 2001 “Changing rights, changing culture." pp. 31–56 in Culture and Rights: Anthropological Perspectives. Jane Cowan, Marie-Benedicte Dembour, and Richard A. Wilson, eds. London: Cambridge University Press,