Justice Fragmented: Mediating Community Disputes Under Postmodern Conditions

by Pavlich,George C.

• ISBN13: 9780415113120
• ISBN10: 0415113121
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-09-20
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Over the past few decades a range of alternative dispute resolution programmes have emerged to settle conflicts informally, outside the courtroom. Drawing on real life experiences of community mediation practices in British Columbia, the author explores informal justice as an event rendered possible by the fragmentation of justice under postmodern conditions. Developing Foucault's ideas on governmentality, he erects an analytical framework that does not view community mediation as necessarily empowering, or an inevitable expansion of state control. The analysis identifies how one might engage with current versions of community justice and yet avoid the political apathy that too often accompanies such criticism.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. ix
In Search of a Beginning...	p. 1
The Fragmented Auspices of Community Justice	p. 16
Calculating Community Justice	p. 42
The Critics Respond	p. 66
Redrawing Critical Lines of Enquiry	p. 82
Governing Disputes	p. 106
Governmentalising the State	p. 132
Notes	p. 159
Bibliography	p. 176
Index	p. 200
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