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Loading... Contested states : law, hegemony, and resistanceby Mindie Lazarus-Black
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Contested Statesexamines how hegemony is created and facilitated through law as well as how people use legal arenas to resist oppression. The essays, written by anthropologists and historians, offer rich historical and ethnographic detail as they engage these themes in such contexts as: colonial and post-colonial courts in Kenya, India, Uganda and the Caribbean; bureaucracies in Tonga and Turkey; and judicial processes in the historical and contemporary United States. Contested Statescontributes to the new focus on power and social process in legal studies and argues that while states encode and enforce law, a crucial part of the power of law is its very contestability. The book demonstrates that theoretical insights learned in legal arenas can deepen one's overall understanding of sociocultural order and the processes of historical and legal change. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)340.115Social sciences Law Law Theory Particular Topics Law, Justice, and SocietyLC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |