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Public Justice and the Anthropology of Law

Author : Ronald Niezen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780511857065
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Public Justice and the Anthropology of Law written by Ronald Niezen and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this powerful, timely study Ronald Niezen examines the processes by which cultural concepts are conceived and collective rights are defended in international law. Niezen argues that cultivating support on behalf of those experiencing human rights violations often calls for strategic representations of injustice and suffering to distant audiences. The positive impulse behind public responses to political abuse can be found in the satisfaction of justice done. But the fact that oppressed peoples and their supporters from around the world are competing for public attention is actually a profound source of global difference, stemming from differential capacities to appeal to a remote, unknown public. Niezen's discussion of the impact of public opinion on law provides fresh insights into the importance of legally-constructed identity and the changing pathways through which it is being shaped - crucial issues for all those with an interest in anthropology, politics and human rights law"--Provided by publisher.

Public Justice and the Anthropology of Law

Author : Ronald Niezen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139493191
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Public Justice and the Anthropology of Law written by Ronald Niezen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this powerful, timely study Ronald Niezen examines the processes by which cultural concepts are conceived and collective rights are defended in international law. Niezen argues that cultivating support on behalf of those experiencing human rights violations often calls for strategic representations of injustice and suffering to distant audiences. The positive impulse behind public responses to political abuse can be found in the satisfaction of justice done. But the fact that oppressed peoples and their supporters from around the world are competing for public attention is actually a profound source of global difference, stemming from differential capacities to appeal to a remote, unknown public. Niezen's discussion of the impact of public opinion on law provides fresh insights into the importance of legally-constructed identity and the changing pathways through which it is being shaped - crucial issues for all those with an interest in anthropology, politics and human rights law.

The Life of the Law

Author : Laura Nader
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520229886
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Life of the Law written by Laura Nader and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-02-28 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nader traces the evolution of the plaintiff's role in the United States in the second half of the twentieth century and convincingly argues that the atrophy of the plaintiff's power during this period undermines democracy.".

Legalism

Author : Fernanda Pirie
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191025925
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Legalism written by Fernanda Pirie and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Community' and 'justice' recur in anthropological, historical, and legal scholarship, yet as concepts they are notoriously slippery. Historians and lawyers look to anthropologists as 'community specialists', but anthropologists often avoid the concept through circumlocution: although much used (and abused) by historians, legal thinkers, and political philosophers, the term remains strikingly indeterminate and often morally overdetermined. 'Justice', meanwhile, is elusive, alternately invoked as the goal of contemporary political theorizing, and wrapped in obscure philosophical controversy. A conceptual knot emerges in much legal and political thought between law, justice, and community, but theories abound, without any agreement over concepts. The contributors to this volume use empirical case studies to unpick threads of this knot. Local codes from Anglo-Saxon England, north Africa, and medieval Armenia indicate disjunctions between community boundaries and the subjects of local rules and categories; processes of justice from early modern Europe to eastern Tibet suggest new ways of conceptualizing the relationship between law and justice; and practices of exile that recur throughout the world illustrate contingent formulations of community. In the first book in the series, Legalism: Anthropology and History, law was addressed through a focus on local legal categories as conceptual tools. Here this approach is extended to the ideas and ideals of justice and community. Rigorous cross-cultural comparison allows the contributors to avoid normative assumptions, while opening new avenues of inquiry for lawyers, anthropologists, and historians alike.

When Law and Medicine Meet: A Cultural View

Author : Lola Romanucci-Ross
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1402027575
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book When Law and Medicine Meet: A Cultural View written by Lola Romanucci-Ross and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-11-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when two systems, law and medicine, are joined in the arena of the court? This work deals with the structure and the premises of two diverse discourse models; the approach is anthropological. Several chapters are preponderantly based on legal research, addressing cases requiring testimony by expert witnesses on recent technologies used in the laboratories of medical scientists. Descriptions of other societies and cultures consider the identical problems of rights, privileges, and duties, and provide perspectives to cultural self-knowledge. This volume can be used as a text for courses taught in medical schools and law schools. It will be of particular interest to students taking courses in health science, public health, medical anthropology, forensic anthropology, psychology, sociology, public justice, behavioral sciences, forensic psychiatry, legal anthropology, social welfare, as well as courses on research models.

Everyday Justice

Author : Sandra Brunnegger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108487211
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Everyday Justice written by Sandra Brunnegger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides rich ethnographic analysis and offers a critical ethnographic approach to justice.

Anthropology & Law

Author : James M. Donovan
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571814234
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Anthropology & Law written by James M. Donovan and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legal practice renders a further important benefit to anthropology when it validates anthropological knowledge through the use of anthropologists as expert witnesses in the courtroom and the introduction of the 'culture defense' against criminal charges."--Jacket.

African Customary Justice

Author : Pnina Werbner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781032149462
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book African Customary Justice written by Pnina Werbner and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an important ethnographic and theoretical advance in legal anthropological scholarship by interrogating customary law, customary courts and legal pluralism in sub-Saharan Africa. It highlights the vitality and continued relevance of customary justice at a time when customary courts have waned or even disappeared in many postcolonial African nations. Taking Botswana as a casestudy from in-depth fieldwork over a fifty-year period, the book shows, the 'customary' is robustly enduring, central to settling interpersonal disputes and constitutive of the local as well as the national public ethics. Customary law continues to be constitutionally protected, authorised by the country's past as an authentic, viable legacy, from the British colonial period of indirect rule, to the postcolony's present development as a highly bureaucratised democracy. Along with a theoretical overview of the underlying issues for the anthropology and sociology of law, the book documents customary law as living law in the context of legal pluralism. It takes a legal realist approach and highlights the need to pay close attention to the lived experience of justice and its role in the production of legal subjectivities. The book will be valuable to Africanists but also, more broadly, to social scientists, social historians and socio-legal scholars with interests in law and social change, public ethics and personal morality, and the intersection of politics and judicial decision-making.

Islam, Law, and Equality in Indonesia

Author : John Richard Bowen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521531894
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Islam, Law, and Equality in Indonesia written by John Richard Bowen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-05-29 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at how Muslims in Indonesia struggle to reconcile radically different sets of social norms and laws.

Anthropological Expertise and Legal Practice

Author : Marie-Claire Foblets
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040031714
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Anthropological Expertise and Legal Practice written by Marie-Claire Foblets and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-05 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws on concrete cases of collaboration between anthropologists and legal practitioners to critically assess the use of anthropological expertise in a variety of legal contexts from the point of view of the anthropologist as well as of the decision-maker or legal practitioner. The contributions, several of which are co-authored by anthropologist–legal practitioner tandems, deal with the roles of and relationships between anthropologists and legal professionals, which are often collaborative, interdisciplinary, and complementary. Such interactions go far beyond courts and litigation into areas of law that might be called ‘social justice activism’. They also entail close collaboration with the people –often subjects of violence and dispossession –with whom the anthropologists and legal practitioners are working. The aim of this collection is to draw on past experiences to come up with practical methodological suggestions for facilitating this interaction and collaboration and for enhancing the efficacy of the use of anthropological expertise in legal contexts. Explicitly designed to bridge the gap between theory and practice, and between scholarship and practical application, the book will appeal to scholars and researchers engaged in anthropology, legal anthropology, socio-legal studies, and asylum and migration law. It will also be of interest to legal practitioners and applied social scientists, who can glean valuable lessons regarding the challenges and rewards of genuine collaboration between legal practitioners and social scientists.

The Anthropology of Law

Author : Fernanda Pirie
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191650676
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book The Anthropology of Law written by Fernanda Pirie and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questions about the nature of law, its relationship with custom, and the form of legal rules, categories and claims, are placed at the centre of this challenging, yet accessible, introduction. Anthropology of law is presented as a distinctive subject within the broader field of legal anthropology, suggesting new avenues of inquiry for the anthropologist, while also bringing empirical studies within the ambit of legal scholarship. The Anthropology of Law considers contemporary debates on human rights, international laws, and new forms of property alongside ethnographic studies of order and conflict resolution. It also delves into the rich corpus of texts and codes studied by legal historians, classicists and orientalists: the great legal systems of ancient China, India, and the Islamic world, unjustly neglected by anthropologists, are examined alongside forms of law created on their peripheries. Ancient codes, medieval coutumes, village constitutions, and tribal laws provide rich empirical detail for the authors analysis of the cross-cultural importance of the form of law, as text or rule, and carefully-selected examples shed new light upon the interrelations and distinctions between laws, custom, and justice. Legalism is taken as the starting point for inquiry into the nature and functions of law, and its roles as an instrument of government, a subject of scholarship, and an assertion of moral order. An argument unfolds concerning the tensions between legalistic thought and argument, and the ideological or aspirational claims to embody justice, morality, and religious truth, which lie at the heart of what we think of as law.

Public Anthropology

Author : Edward J. Hedican
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442635908
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Public Anthropology written by Edward J. Hedican and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-03-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary anthropology has changed drastically in the new millennium, expanding beyond the anachronistic study of "primitive" societies to confront the burning social, economic, and political challenges of the day. In the process, anthropologists often come face to face with issues that require them to take a public position—issues such as race and tolerance, health and well-being, food security, reconciliation and public justice, global terror and militarism, and digital media This comprehensive but accessible book is both an interesting read and an excellent overview of public anthropology. In-depth case studies offer an opportunity to evaluate the pros and cons of engaging with public issues, while profiles of select anthropologists ensure the book is contemporary, but rooted in the history of the discipline.

A Sense of Justice

Author : Sandra Brunnegger
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804799113
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book A Sense of Justice written by Sandra Brunnegger and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout Latin America, the idea of "justice" serves as the ultimate goal and rationale for a wide variety of actions and causes. In the Chilean Atacama Desert, residents have undertaken a prolonged struggle for their right to groundwater. Family members of bombing victims in Buenos Aires demand that the state provide justice for the attack. In Colombia, some victims of political violence have turned to the courts for resolution, while others reject the state's ability to fairly adjudicate their grievances and have constructed a non-state tribunal. In each of these examples, the protagonists seek one main thing: justice. A Sense of Justice ethnographically explores the complex dynamics of justice production across Latin America. The chapters examine (in)justice as it is lived and imagined today and what it means for those who claim and regulate its parameters, including the Brazilian police force, the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal in Colombia, and the Argentine Supreme Court. Inextricable as "justice" is from inequality, violence, crime, and corruption, it emerges through memory, in space, and where ideals meet practical limitations. Ultimately, the authors show how understanding the dynamic processes of constructing justice is essential to creating cooperative rather than oppressive forms of law.

Encyclopedia of Law & Society: F-O

Author : David Scott Clark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Law & Society: F-O written by David Scott Clark and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides more than seven hundred alphabetical entries covering the interaction of law and society around the globe, including the sociology of law, law and economics, law and political science, psychology and law, and criminology.

Palaces of Hope

Author : Ronald Niezen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107127491
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Palaces of Hope written by Ronald Niezen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book assembles a range of work by researchers who have entered the social worlds of global organizations.

Law in Society

Author : Stuart Henry
Publisher : Cognella Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781516500086
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law in Society written by Stuart Henry and published by Cognella Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The text explores how law shapes and is shaped by societies. The selections stem from a view of law as an integral part of the wider socio-political economy and one of its central institutions.

Corruption and the Secret of Law

Author : Gerhard Anders
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351948342
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Corruption and the Secret of Law written by Gerhard Anders and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents an anthropological perspective on the hidden continuities between corruption and law. The authors argue that the two opposites, corruption and law, are inextricably linked - with the possibility of the former already inscribed into the latter. Taking a critical stance towards the normative good governance agenda spearheaded by institutions such as Transparency International and the World Bank, this volume argues that by uncritically depicting corruption as an absolute evil, these anti-corruption programs disregard the close relationship that exists between corruption and state power. Addressing various aspects of a complex and ambivalent phenomenon, Corruption and the Secret of Law draws on studies from different parts of the world including Burundi, China, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico and the USA and provides a valuable resource for students, researchers and policy-makers working in this area.