Mobile People, Mobile Law: Expanding Legal Relations in a Contracting World

by Benda-Beckmann,Franz von

• ISBN13: 9780754623861
• ISBN10: 0754623866
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-06-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Demonstrating how users of law, who often operate in multi-sited situations, are forced to deal with increasingly complex legal circumstances, this volume focuses on political and social processes through which people appropriate, use and create legal forms in multiple legal settings.

Table of Contents

Mobile people, mobile law : an introduction	p. 1
Transborder citizenship : an outcome of legal pluralism within transnational social fields	p. 27
Transnational migration and the re-framing of normative values	p. 51
'Global fire' : repatriation and reparations from a rastafari (re)migrant's perspective	p. 69
McTradition in the new South Africa : commodified custom and rights talk with the Bafokeng and the Bapedi	p. 91
Democracy in flux : time, mobility and sedentarization of law in Minangkabau, Indonesia	p. 111
Mobile law and globalism : epistemic communities versus community-based innovation in the fisheries sector	p. 131
Contesting decentralization : transnational policy narratives and the emergence of volatile socio-legal configurations in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia	p. 153
Negotiating water rights in the context of a new political and legal landscape in Zimbabwe	p. 177
The Americanization of international law	p. 199
Human rights and global legal pluralism : reciprocity and disjuncture	p. 215
Project law - normative orders of bilateral development cooperation and social change : a case study from the German agency for technical cooperation	p. 233
School and religious difference : current negotiations within the Swiss immigrant society - viewed in a comparative perspective	p. 257
Localizing the global : rights of participation in the Scottish children's hearing system	p. 277
Mobility versus law, mobility in the law? : judges in Europe are confronted with the thorny question 'which law applies to litigants or migrant origin?'	p. 297
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