Introduction. On Travel, Translation, and TransformationPART I. INITIATIVES BY FORMAL HUMAN RIGHTS NORM-SETTERSChapter 1. The Escher–Human Rights Escalator: Technologies of the LocalChapter 2. Accommodating Local Human Rights Practice at the UN Human Rights CouncilChapter 3. Human Rights-Based Approaches to Development: The Local, Travel, and TransformationPART II. INTERACTIONS BETWEEN SOCIAL MOBILIZATION AND LEGAL CLAIM-MAKINGChapter 4. Lost Through Translation: Political Dialectics of Eco-Social and Collective rights in EcuChapter 5. Upstreaming or Streamlining? Translating Social Movement Agendas into Legal Claims in NepChapter 6. New Visibilities: Challenging Torture and Impunity in VietnamPART III. HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRAMS AND THE PROLIFERATION OF NONCONFRONTATIONAL METHODSChapter 7. Rural-Urban Migration and Education in China: Unraveling Responses to Injurious ExperiencChapter 8. Localization “Light”: The Travel and Transformation of Nonempowering Human Rights NorChapter 9. Global Rights, Local Risk: Community Advocacy on Right to Health in ChinaAfterword. Our Vernacular Futures