Author: Benda-Beckmann, Keebet Von (Ed.).
Title: The Power of Law in a Transnational World: Anthropological Enquiries.
Description: New York : Berghahn Books, 2009. Paperback. 280 pp. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. - This fascinating collection of articles sheds new light on the way law exercises power in a transnational world, from the crises of terrorism to the subtle introduction of new law within development projects. This set of articles provides new evidence of the important insights offered by legal pluralism and anthropological methodologies for understanding the nature of transnational, national, and local systems of law. 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. ISBN 9780857456151.

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