ISBN:
9780857456151
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (272 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version The Power Of Law In A Transnational World : Anthropological Enquiries
DDC:
303.3
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
How is law mobilized and who has the power and authority to construct its meaning? This important volume examines this question as well as how law is constituted and reconfigured through social processes that frame both its continuity and transformation over time. The volume highlights how power is deployed under conditions of legal pluralism, exploring its effects on livelihoods and on social institutions, including the state. Such an approach not only demonstrates how the state, through its various development programs and organizational structures, attempts to control territory and people
Description / Table of Contents:
Title page-The Power of Law in a Transnational World; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1-The Military Order of 13 November 2001; Chapter 2-Law and the Frontiers of Illegalities; Chapter 3-Selective Scrutiny; Chapter 4-The Globalization of Fatwas amidst The Terror Wars Against Pluralism; Chapter 5-Human Rights, Cultral Relativism and Legal Pluralism; Chapter 6-Learning Communities and Legal Spaces; Chapter 7-Project Law-A Power Instrument of Development Agencies; Chapter 8-Half-Told Truths and Partial Silence; Chapter 9-Keeping the Stream of Justice Clear and Pure
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 10-Balancing Islam, Adat and the StateChapter 11-Kings, Monks, Bureaucrats and the Police; Notes on Contributors; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
Permalink
