Local space, global life : the everyday operation of international law and development / Luis Eslava.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eslava, Luis, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law and economic development--Case studies.

Law and economic development.

City planning and redevelopment law--Colombia--Bogotá.

City planning and redevelopment law.

Bogotá (Colombia)--Economic conditions.

Bogotá (Colombia).

Colombia--Bogotá.

Economic history.

Colombia.

Bogot.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xxi, 351 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Summary:

"Local Space, Global Life engages with the expansive, ground-level and intertwined operations of international law and the development project by discussing the current international focus on local jurisdictions. Since the mid-1980s, and through the discourse of decentralization, municipalities and cities in emerging nations have become the preferred spaces in which to promote global ideals of human, economic and environmental development. Through an ethnographic study of Bogotá's recent development experience and the city's changing relation to its illegal neighbourhoods, Luis Eslava interrogates this rationale and exposes the contradictions involved in the international turn to the local. Attentive to historical and current transformations, norms and praxis, he provides an innovative reading of the nature of international law and the development project, and reveals their impact on local spaces and lives at the urban periphery of today's world order"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. Building the global from the local; 3. Development and the nation-state; 4. Development changes places; 5. The making of a new Bogotá; 6. The local self of the international; 7. Conclusions.

Notes:

Based on author's thesis (doctoral) - University of Melbourne, Melbourne Law School, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107092129

1107092124

OCLC:

903473917

Online:

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