Law against the State : Ethnographic Forays into Law's Transformations
ISBN: 9781107014664 | 1107014662
Edition: 1stFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 7/9/2012
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A collection of rich, empirically grounded case studies which investigates the conditions and consequences of 'juridification' - the use of law by ordinary individuals as a form of protest against 'the state'. Starting from the actual practices of claimants, the case studies included address the translation and interpretation of legal norms into local concepts, actions and practices in a way that highlights the social and cultural dynamism and multivocality of communities in their interaction with the law and legal norms. In doing so, we challe... MORE
| Introduction: law's travels and transformations | |
| Juridification of indigenous politics | |
| Naming, claiming, proving? The burden of proof issue for Russia's indigenous peoples | |
| Human rights and village headmen in Malawi: translation beyond vernacularisation | |
| Juridification, transitional justice and reaching out to the public in Sierra Leone | |
| The juridification of political protest and the politicisation of leg... MORE | |
| Rumours of rights | |
| Public interest and private compromises: the politics of environmental negotiation in Delhi, India | |
| Law against displacement: the juridification of tribal protest in Rourkela, Orissa | |
| Documenting 'truth' in the margins of the Turkish state | |
| The ones who walk away: law, sacrifice and conscientious objection in Turkey | |
| Epilogue: changing paradigms of human rights | |
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