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.
Acknowledgements
Introduction:The Power of Law
Franz von Benda-Beckmann,Keebet von Benda-BeckmannandAnne Griffiths
POWER OF LAW AS DISCOURSE: CLAIMS TO LEGITIMACY AND HIGHER MORALITY
Chapter 1.The Military Order of 13 November 2001: An Ethnographic Reading
Carol J. Greenhouse
Chapter 2.Law and the Frontiers of Illegalities
Laura Nader
Chapter 3.Selective Scrutiny: Supranational Engagement with Minority Protection and Rights in Europe
Jane K. Cowan
Chapter 4.The Globalization of Fatwas amidst the Terror Wars against Pluralism
Upendra Baxi
Chapter 5.Human Rights, Cultural Relativism and Legal Pluralism: Towards a Two-dimensional Debate
Franz von Benda-Beckmann
AT THE INTERSECTION OF LEGALITIES
Chapter 6.Learning Communities and Legal Spaces: Community based Fisheries Management in a Globalizing World
Melanie G. WiberandJohn F. Kearney
Chapter 7.Project Law a Power Instrument of Development Agencies: A Case Study from Burundi
Markus Weilenmann
Chapter 8.Half-Told Truths and PartiallS°
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