Author: Antonio Carlos Wolkmer
Publisher: Midac, SL
ISBN: 8491486860
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Esta obra se propone analizar la crisis y el agotamiento que vive el modelo clásico occidental de Derecho positivo, producido por las fuentes estatales y fundado sobre las directrices liberal-individualistas. La insuficiencia de ese paradigma jurídico basado en el principio de legalidad establecida por el estado, que sirvió para reglamentar y legitimar los intereses de la tradición cultural burguesa y capitalista, favorece un proceso de ruptura que puede encaminar hacia la conformación de un proyecto diferenciado, que se asienta en una serie de presupuestos que parten de las condiciones históricas, económicas, conflictivas, de luchas sociales y prácticas insurgentes.La condición para implementar un paradigma de normatividad alternativa implica la construcción de un pluralismo que se revele abierto, participativo y democrático. Asimismo, desde él se debe absorber y transformar las carencias y las necesidades de múltiples sociabilidades por medio del reconocimiento y la institucionalización de nuevos" derechos. Este pluralismo transformador, al distanciarse de los rumbos de las antiguas formulaciones y no estar ya más vinculado con la representación individualista o estatalista del mundo social, se construye teniendo en cuenta los espacios insurgentes, comunitarios y autonómicos.Teniendo en cuenta el actual contexto de la globalización capitalista y el impacto del neoliberalismo, por la importancia y la profundidad del tema, esta obra pretende dirigirse a un amplio público, no sólo del mundo académico, sino también llamando la atención, principalmente, de estudiantes, profesores, sociólogos, politólogos, antropólogos, activistas sociales, movimientos instituyentes y a todos los operadores jurídicos en general.
Pluralismo jurídico.Fundamentos de una nueva cultura del Derecho
Author: Antonio Carlos Wolkmer
Publisher: Midac, SL
ISBN: 8491486860
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Esta obra se propone analizar la crisis y el agotamiento que vive el modelo clásico occidental de Derecho positivo, producido por las fuentes estatales y fundado sobre las directrices liberal-individualistas. La insuficiencia de ese paradigma jurídico basado en el principio de legalidad establecida por el estado, que sirvió para reglamentar y legitimar los intereses de la tradición cultural burguesa y capitalista, favorece un proceso de ruptura que puede encaminar hacia la conformación de un proyecto diferenciado, que se asienta en una serie de presupuestos que parten de las condiciones históricas, económicas, conflictivas, de luchas sociales y prácticas insurgentes.La condición para implementar un paradigma de normatividad alternativa implica la construcción de un pluralismo que se revele abierto, participativo y democrático. Asimismo, desde él se debe absorber y transformar las carencias y las necesidades de múltiples sociabilidades por medio del reconocimiento y la institucionalización de nuevos" derechos. Este pluralismo transformador, al distanciarse de los rumbos de las antiguas formulaciones y no estar ya más vinculado con la representación individualista o estatalista del mundo social, se construye teniendo en cuenta los espacios insurgentes, comunitarios y autonómicos.Teniendo en cuenta el actual contexto de la globalización capitalista y el impacto del neoliberalismo, por la importancia y la profundidad del tema, esta obra pretende dirigirse a un amplio público, no sólo del mundo académico, sino también llamando la atención, principalmente, de estudiantes, profesores, sociólogos, politólogos, antropólogos, activistas sociales, movimientos instituyentes y a todos los operadores jurídicos en general.
Publisher: Midac, SL
ISBN: 8491486860
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Esta obra se propone analizar la crisis y el agotamiento que vive el modelo clásico occidental de Derecho positivo, producido por las fuentes estatales y fundado sobre las directrices liberal-individualistas. La insuficiencia de ese paradigma jurídico basado en el principio de legalidad establecida por el estado, que sirvió para reglamentar y legitimar los intereses de la tradición cultural burguesa y capitalista, favorece un proceso de ruptura que puede encaminar hacia la conformación de un proyecto diferenciado, que se asienta en una serie de presupuestos que parten de las condiciones históricas, económicas, conflictivas, de luchas sociales y prácticas insurgentes.La condición para implementar un paradigma de normatividad alternativa implica la construcción de un pluralismo que se revele abierto, participativo y democrático. Asimismo, desde él se debe absorber y transformar las carencias y las necesidades de múltiples sociabilidades por medio del reconocimiento y la institucionalización de nuevos" derechos. Este pluralismo transformador, al distanciarse de los rumbos de las antiguas formulaciones y no estar ya más vinculado con la representación individualista o estatalista del mundo social, se construye teniendo en cuenta los espacios insurgentes, comunitarios y autonómicos.Teniendo en cuenta el actual contexto de la globalización capitalista y el impacto del neoliberalismo, por la importancia y la profundidad del tema, esta obra pretende dirigirse a un amplio público, no sólo del mundo académico, sino también llamando la atención, principalmente, de estudiantes, profesores, sociólogos, politólogos, antropólogos, activistas sociales, movimientos instituyentes y a todos los operadores jurídicos en general.
Beyond Law
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legal assistance to the poor
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legal assistance to the poor
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
Multiple InJustices
Author: R. Aída Hernández Castillo
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816534594
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The last two decades have witnessed two political transformations that have deeply affected the lives of the indigenous peoples of Latin America. First, a discourse on indigeneity has emerged that links local struggles across the continent with transnational movements whose core issues are racism and political and cultural rights. Second, recent constitutional reforms in several countries recognize the multicultural character of Latin American countries and the legal pluralism that necessarily follows. Multiple InJustices synthesizes R. Aída Hernández Castillo’s twenty-four years of activism and research among indigenous women’s organizations in Latin America. As both feminist and critical anthropologist, Hernández Castillo analyzes the context of legal pluralism wherein the indigenous women of Mexico, Guatemala, and Colombia struggle for justice. Through ethnographical research in community, state, and international justice, she reflects on the possibilities and limitations of customary, national, and international law for indigenous women. Colonialism, racism, and patriarchal violence have been fundamental elements for the reproduction of capitalism, Hernández Castillo asserts. Only a social policy that offers economic alternatives based on distribution of wealth and a real recognition of cultural and political rights of indigenous peoples can counter the damage of outside forces such as drug cartels on indigenous lands. She concludes that the theories of indigenous women on culture, tradition, and gender equity—as expressed in political documents, event reports, public discourse, and their intellectual writings—are key factors in the decolonization of Latin American feminisms and social justice for all.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816534594
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The last two decades have witnessed two political transformations that have deeply affected the lives of the indigenous peoples of Latin America. First, a discourse on indigeneity has emerged that links local struggles across the continent with transnational movements whose core issues are racism and political and cultural rights. Second, recent constitutional reforms in several countries recognize the multicultural character of Latin American countries and the legal pluralism that necessarily follows. Multiple InJustices synthesizes R. Aída Hernández Castillo’s twenty-four years of activism and research among indigenous women’s organizations in Latin America. As both feminist and critical anthropologist, Hernández Castillo analyzes the context of legal pluralism wherein the indigenous women of Mexico, Guatemala, and Colombia struggle for justice. Through ethnographical research in community, state, and international justice, she reflects on the possibilities and limitations of customary, national, and international law for indigenous women. Colonialism, racism, and patriarchal violence have been fundamental elements for the reproduction of capitalism, Hernández Castillo asserts. Only a social policy that offers economic alternatives based on distribution of wealth and a real recognition of cultural and political rights of indigenous peoples can counter the damage of outside forces such as drug cartels on indigenous lands. She concludes that the theories of indigenous women on culture, tradition, and gender equity—as expressed in political documents, event reports, public discourse, and their intellectual writings—are key factors in the decolonization of Latin American feminisms and social justice for all.
Research Handbook on Modern Legal Realism
Author: Shauhin Talesh
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1788117778
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
This insightful Research Handbook provides a definitive overview of the New Legal Realism (NLR) movement, reaching beyond historical and national boundaries to form new conversations. Drawing on deep roots within the law-and-society tradition, it demonstrates the powerful virtues of new legal realist research and its attention to the challenges of translation between social science and law. It explores an impressive range of contemporary issues including immigration, policing, globalization, legal education, and access to justice, concluding with and examination of how different social science disciplines intersect with NLR.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1788117778
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
This insightful Research Handbook provides a definitive overview of the New Legal Realism (NLR) movement, reaching beyond historical and national boundaries to form new conversations. Drawing on deep roots within the law-and-society tradition, it demonstrates the powerful virtues of new legal realist research and its attention to the challenges of translation between social science and law. It explores an impressive range of contemporary issues including immigration, policing, globalization, legal education, and access to justice, concluding with and examination of how different social science disciplines intersect with NLR.
Decolonizing Constitutionalism
Author: Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000914097
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
The modern state, law, and constitution result from a legal canon that (re)produces the abyssal lines dividing the world that is validated from the world whose humanity and epistemological validity are denied. This book aims to contribute to a post-abyssal reflection on law and constitutionalism by considering the structural axes of power that are constitutive of modern law “capitalism, colonialism, and heteropatriarchy” alongside the legal plurality of the world. Is it possible to decolonize, decommodify, and depatriarchalize the constitution? The authors speak from multiple geographies, raise different questions, resort to differentiated theoretical approaches, and reveal varying levels of optimism about the possibilities of transforming constitutions. The readers are confronted with critical perspectives on the Eurocentric legal canon, as well as with the recognition of anti-capitalist, anti-colonial, and anti-patriarchal legal experiences. The horizon of this publication is the expansion of the possibilities of legal and political imagination.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000914097
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
The modern state, law, and constitution result from a legal canon that (re)produces the abyssal lines dividing the world that is validated from the world whose humanity and epistemological validity are denied. This book aims to contribute to a post-abyssal reflection on law and constitutionalism by considering the structural axes of power that are constitutive of modern law “capitalism, colonialism, and heteropatriarchy” alongside the legal plurality of the world. Is it possible to decolonize, decommodify, and depatriarchalize the constitution? The authors speak from multiple geographies, raise different questions, resort to differentiated theoretical approaches, and reveal varying levels of optimism about the possibilities of transforming constitutions. The readers are confronted with critical perspectives on the Eurocentric legal canon, as well as with the recognition of anti-capitalist, anti-colonial, and anti-patriarchal legal experiences. The horizon of this publication is the expansion of the possibilities of legal and political imagination.
Multiple InJustices
Author: R. Aída Hernández Castillo
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816532494
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
R. Aída Hernández Castillo synthesizes twenty-four years of research and activism among indigenous women's organizations in Latin America, offering a critical new contribution to the field of activist anthropology and for anyone interested in social justice.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816532494
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
R. Aída Hernández Castillo synthesizes twenty-four years of research and activism among indigenous women's organizations in Latin America, offering a critical new contribution to the field of activist anthropology and for anyone interested in social justice.
New Horizons in Spanish Colonial Law
Author: Thomas Duve
Publisher: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
ISBN: 3944773020
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
http://dx.doi.org/10.12946/gplh3 http://www.epubli.de/shop/buch/48746 "Spanish colonial law, derecho indiano, has since the early 20th century been a vigorous subdiscipline of legal history. One of great figures in the field, the Argentinian legal historian Víctor Tau Anzoátegui, published in 1997 his Nuevos horizontes en el estudio histórico del derecho indiano. The book, in which Tau addressed seminal methodological questions setting tone for the discipline’s future orientation, proved to be the starting point for an important renewal of the discipline. Tau drew on the writings of legal historians, such as Paolo Grossi, Antonio Manuel Hespanha, and Bartolomé Clavero. Tau emphasized the development of legal history in connection to what he called “the posture superseding rational and statutory state law.” The following features of normativity were now in need of increasing scholarly attention: the autonomy of different levels of social organization, the different modes of normative creativity, the many different notions of law and justice, the position of the jurist as an artifact of law, and the casuistic character of the legal decisions. Moreover, Tau highlighted certain areas of Spanish colonial law that he thought deserved more attention than they had hitherto received. One of these was the history of the learned jurist: the letrado was to be seen in his social, political, economic, and bureaucratic context. The Argentinian legal historian called for more scholarly works on book history, and he thought that provincial and local histories of Spanish colonial law had been studied too little. Within the field of historical science as a whole, these ideas may not have been revolutionary, but they contributed in an important way to bringing the study of Spanish colonial law up-to-date. It is beyond doubt that Tau’s programmatic visions have been largely fulfilled in the past two decades. Equally manifest is, however, that new challenges to legal history and Spanish colonial law have emerged. The challenges of globalization are felt both in the historical and legal sciences, and not the least in the field of legal history. They have also brought major topics (back) on to the scene, such as the importance of religious normativity within the normative setting of societies. These challenges have made scholars aware of the necessity to reconstruct the circulation of ideas, juridical practices, and researchers are becoming more attentive to the intense cultural translation involved in the movement of legal ideas and institutions from one context to another. Not least, the growing consciousness and strong claims to reconsider colonial history from the premises of postcolonial scholarship expose the discipline to an unseen necessity of reconsidering its very foundational concepts. What concept of law do we need for our historical studies when considering multi-normative settings? How do we define the spatial dimension of our work? How do we analyze the entanglements in legal history? Until recently, Spanish colonial law attracted little interest from non-Hispanic scholars, and its results were not seen within a larger global context. In this respect, Spanish colonial law was hardly different from research done on legal history of the European continent or common law. Spanish colonial law has, however, recently become a topic of interest beyond the Hispanic world. The field is now increasingly seen in the context of “global legal history,” while the old and the new research results are often put into a comparative context of both European law of the early Modern Period and other colonial legal orders. In this volume, scholars from different parts of the Western world approach Spanish colonial law from the new perspectives of contemporary legal historical research."
Publisher: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
ISBN: 3944773020
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
http://dx.doi.org/10.12946/gplh3 http://www.epubli.de/shop/buch/48746 "Spanish colonial law, derecho indiano, has since the early 20th century been a vigorous subdiscipline of legal history. One of great figures in the field, the Argentinian legal historian Víctor Tau Anzoátegui, published in 1997 his Nuevos horizontes en el estudio histórico del derecho indiano. The book, in which Tau addressed seminal methodological questions setting tone for the discipline’s future orientation, proved to be the starting point for an important renewal of the discipline. Tau drew on the writings of legal historians, such as Paolo Grossi, Antonio Manuel Hespanha, and Bartolomé Clavero. Tau emphasized the development of legal history in connection to what he called “the posture superseding rational and statutory state law.” The following features of normativity were now in need of increasing scholarly attention: the autonomy of different levels of social organization, the different modes of normative creativity, the many different notions of law and justice, the position of the jurist as an artifact of law, and the casuistic character of the legal decisions. Moreover, Tau highlighted certain areas of Spanish colonial law that he thought deserved more attention than they had hitherto received. One of these was the history of the learned jurist: the letrado was to be seen in his social, political, economic, and bureaucratic context. The Argentinian legal historian called for more scholarly works on book history, and he thought that provincial and local histories of Spanish colonial law had been studied too little. Within the field of historical science as a whole, these ideas may not have been revolutionary, but they contributed in an important way to bringing the study of Spanish colonial law up-to-date. It is beyond doubt that Tau’s programmatic visions have been largely fulfilled in the past two decades. Equally manifest is, however, that new challenges to legal history and Spanish colonial law have emerged. The challenges of globalization are felt both in the historical and legal sciences, and not the least in the field of legal history. They have also brought major topics (back) on to the scene, such as the importance of religious normativity within the normative setting of societies. These challenges have made scholars aware of the necessity to reconstruct the circulation of ideas, juridical practices, and researchers are becoming more attentive to the intense cultural translation involved in the movement of legal ideas and institutions from one context to another. Not least, the growing consciousness and strong claims to reconsider colonial history from the premises of postcolonial scholarship expose the discipline to an unseen necessity of reconsidering its very foundational concepts. What concept of law do we need for our historical studies when considering multi-normative settings? How do we define the spatial dimension of our work? How do we analyze the entanglements in legal history? Until recently, Spanish colonial law attracted little interest from non-Hispanic scholars, and its results were not seen within a larger global context. In this respect, Spanish colonial law was hardly different from research done on legal history of the European continent or common law. Spanish colonial law has, however, recently become a topic of interest beyond the Hispanic world. The field is now increasingly seen in the context of “global legal history,” while the old and the new research results are often put into a comparative context of both European law of the early Modern Period and other colonial legal orders. In this volume, scholars from different parts of the Western world approach Spanish colonial law from the new perspectives of contemporary legal historical research."
Territory
Author: David Delaney
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1405153059
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
This short introduction conveys the complexities associated with the term "territory" in a clear and accessible manner. It surveys the field and brings theory to ground in the case of Palestine. A clear and accessible introduction to the complexities associated with the term "territory". Provides an interdisciplinary survey of the many strands of research in the field. Addresses specific areas including interpretations of territorial structures; the relationship between territoriality and scale; the validity and fluidity of territory; and the practical, social processes associated with territorial re-configurations. Stresses that our understanding of territory is inseparable from our understanding of power. Uses Israel/Palestine as an extended illustrative case study. The author’s strong legal and geographical background gives the work an authoritative perspective.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1405153059
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
This short introduction conveys the complexities associated with the term "territory" in a clear and accessible manner. It surveys the field and brings theory to ground in the case of Palestine. A clear and accessible introduction to the complexities associated with the term "territory". Provides an interdisciplinary survey of the many strands of research in the field. Addresses specific areas including interpretations of territorial structures; the relationship between territoriality and scale; the validity and fluidity of territory; and the practical, social processes associated with territorial re-configurations. Stresses that our understanding of territory is inseparable from our understanding of power. Uses Israel/Palestine as an extended illustrative case study. The author’s strong legal and geographical background gives the work an authoritative perspective.
Gender Justice and Legal Pluralities
Author: Rachel Sieder
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136191577
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Gender Justice and Legal Pluralities: Latin American and African Perspectives examines the relationship between legal pluralities and the prospects for greater gender justice in developing countries. Rather than asking whether legal pluralities are ‘good’ or ‘bad’ for women, the starting point of this volume is that legal pluralities are a social fact. Adopting a more anthropological approach to the issues of gender justice and women’s rights, it analyzes how gendered rights claims are made and responded to within a range of different cultural, social, economic and political contexts. By examining the different ways in which legal norms, instruments and discourses are being used to challenge or reinforce gendered forms of exclusion, contributing authors generate new knowledge about the dynamics at play between the contemporary contexts of legal pluralities and the struggles for gender justice. Any consideration of this relationship must, it is concluded, be located within a broader, historically informed analysis of regimes of governance.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136191577
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Gender Justice and Legal Pluralities: Latin American and African Perspectives examines the relationship between legal pluralities and the prospects for greater gender justice in developing countries. Rather than asking whether legal pluralities are ‘good’ or ‘bad’ for women, the starting point of this volume is that legal pluralities are a social fact. Adopting a more anthropological approach to the issues of gender justice and women’s rights, it analyzes how gendered rights claims are made and responded to within a range of different cultural, social, economic and political contexts. By examining the different ways in which legal norms, instruments and discourses are being used to challenge or reinforce gendered forms of exclusion, contributing authors generate new knowledge about the dynamics at play between the contemporary contexts of legal pluralities and the struggles for gender justice. Any consideration of this relationship must, it is concluded, be located within a broader, historically informed analysis of regimes of governance.
Demanding Justice and Security
Author: Rachel Sieder
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813587956
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Across Latin America, indigenous women are organizing to challenge racial, gender, and class discrimination through the courts. Collectively, by engaging with various forms of law, they are forging new definitions of what justice and security mean within their own contexts and struggles. They have challenged racism and the exclusion of indigenous people in national reforms, but also have challenged ‘bad customs’ and gender ideologies that exclude women within their own communities. Featuring chapters on Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Mexico, the contributors to Demanding Justice and Security include both leading researchers and community activists. From Kichwa women in Ecuador lobbying for the inclusion of specific clauses in the national constitution that guarantee their rights to equality and protection within indigenous community law, to Me’phaa women from Guerrero, Mexico, battling to secure justice within the Inter-American Court of Human Rights for violations committed in the context of militarizing their home state, this book is a must-have for anyone who wants to understand the struggle of indigenous women in Latin America.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813587956
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Across Latin America, indigenous women are organizing to challenge racial, gender, and class discrimination through the courts. Collectively, by engaging with various forms of law, they are forging new definitions of what justice and security mean within their own contexts and struggles. They have challenged racism and the exclusion of indigenous people in national reforms, but also have challenged ‘bad customs’ and gender ideologies that exclude women within their own communities. Featuring chapters on Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Mexico, the contributors to Demanding Justice and Security include both leading researchers and community activists. From Kichwa women in Ecuador lobbying for the inclusion of specific clauses in the national constitution that guarantee their rights to equality and protection within indigenous community law, to Me’phaa women from Guerrero, Mexico, battling to secure justice within the Inter-American Court of Human Rights for violations committed in the context of militarizing their home state, this book is a must-have for anyone who wants to understand the struggle of indigenous women in Latin America.