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Law, power and culture : supporting change from within / Fauzia Knight.
Van Pelt Library HN670.3.Z9 P656 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Knight, Fauzia, author.
- Series:
- Palgrave Macmillan socio-legal studies
- Palgrave MacMillan socio-legal studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Power (Social sciences)--South Asia--Case studies.
- Power (Social sciences).
- Civil rights--South Asia--Case studies.
- Civil rights.
- Culture and law--South Asia--Case studies.
- Culture and law.
- Social change--South Asia--Case studies.
- Social change.
- South Asia.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 190 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction 1
- Background 2
- Theoretical contributions 4
- Theoretical departures 6
- Physical sites of the research 10
- Chapter outlines 12
- 2 Power, Resistance and Legal Pluralism: Processes of Freedom and Constraint 17
- Power 18
- Resistance 22
- Legal Pluralism 29
- 3 The Santal: Processes of Subordination in the State 34
- The Santal: migrating to alterity 35
- Subordination and the state 41
- Vulnerability of otherness 52
- Conclusion 55
- 4 The Primary Construction of Inequality: Kinship, Law and Ritual in the Santal Family and Village 57
- The Santal family 58
- The village 66
- Conclusion 78
- 5 Resisting from without: The Illusive Promise of the Alternative Legal Order 79
- The individual: disputing across legal orders 80
- Critical tensions in cultural meanings: witchcraft related crimes 92
- Disputing in the context of group survival 97
- Conclusion 100
- 6 The Realization of Needs from within: The Power product and non-compliance 101
- The power product 103
- Non-compliance 115
- Optimization and the rational subject 121
- Conclusion 125
- 7 A Tripartite Theory: Power Practices and Embedded Change 127
- Three forms of power practice 129
- Culture as a dynamic context for change within 137
- Conclusion 144
- 8 Forced Marriage: Engaging with Renegotiations Within 146
- Dilemmas of state intervention in forced marriage cases 147
- Power practices and the South-Asian marriage process 154
- Renegotiating relations of dependence and nature 160
- Conclusion 164
- 9 Conclusion 167.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780230304536
- 0230304532
- OCLC:
- 884299062
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