The Power of Law in a Transnational World : : Anthropological Enquiries / / ed. by Keebet von Benda-Beckmann, Anne Griffiths, Franz von Benda-Beckmann.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Baxi, Upendra,; Benda-Beckmann, Franz von,; Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von,; Cowan, Jane K.,; Greenhouse, Carol J.,; Griffiths, Anne,; Kandel, Randy F.,; Kearney, John F.,; Nader, Laura,; Pirie, Fernanda,; Weilenmann, Markus,; Whitecross, Richard W.,; Wiber, Melanie G.,
• HerausgeberIn: Benda-Beckmann, Franz von,; Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von,; Griffiths, Anne,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.)

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, but also relates the mechanisms of state control to other legal modes of control and regulation at both local and supranational levels.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction THE POWER OF LAW -- POWER OF LAW AS DISCOURSE Claims to Legitimacy and Higher Morality -- 1 THE MILITARY ORDER OF 13 NOVEMBER 2001 An Ethnographic Reading -- 2 LAW AND THE FRONTIERS OF ILLEGALITIES -- 3 SELECTIVE SCRUTINY Supranational Engagement with Minority Protection and Rights in Europe -- 4 THE GLOBALIZATION OF FATWAS AMIDST THE TERROR WARS AGAINST PLURALISM -- 5 HUMAN RIGHTS, CULTURAL RELATIVISM AND LEGAL PLURALISM Towards a Two-dimensional Debate -- AT THE INTERSECTION OF LEGALITIES -- 6 LEARNING COMMUNITIES AND LEGAL SPACES Community-based Fisheries Management in a Globalizing World -- 7 PROJECT LAW – A POWER INSTRUMENT OF DEVELOPMENT AGENCIES A Case Study from Burundi -- 8 HALF-TOLD TRUTHS AND PARTIAL SILENCE Managing Communication in Scottish Children’s Hearings -- RELIGION AS A RESOURCE IN LEGAL PLURALISM -- 9 KEEPING THE STREAM OF JUSTICE CLEAR AND PURE The Buddhicization of Bhutanese Law -- 10 BALANCING ISLAM, ADAT AND THE STATE Comparing Islamic and Civil Courts in Indonesia -- 11 KINGS, MONKS, BUREAUCRATS AND THE POLICE Tibetan Responses to Law and Authority -- Notes on Contributors -- Index