Reckoning with law in excess : mobilization, confrontation, refusal / edited by Mark Goodale, Olaf Zenker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goodale, Mark, editor.

Zenker, Olaf, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociological jurisprudence.

Law--Political aspects.

Law.

Social movements.

social movements.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 303 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"This book explores the relationship between law and social and political transformation in a changing and uncertain world. The authors examine a wide range of case studies in which social movements pursue justice and social change within, against, and beyond the law. The interdisciplinary research at the heart of the volume reveals patterns in the ways in which law and legality are invested with heightened importance during certain historical moments, a process of over-loading that most often gives way to disenchantment with the ultimate limits of law. In reflecting critically and synthetically on these complicated dialectics of reckoning with law, the book shines a light on one of the most important, and consequential, dynamics in an era of climate crisis, rising populism across the political spectrum, and social conflict"-- Provided by the publisher.

Contents:

Social and Political Transformation Within, Against, and Beyond the Law / Mark Goodale and Olaf Zenker

Reckoning with Transformative Constitutionalism : Land Reform, Expropriation without Compensation, and the Iconic Indexicality of Postapartheid South Africa / Olaf Zenker

Beyond Here Lies Somethin' : Juristocratic Reckonings in Two Narratives of Legalities / Lynette J. Chua

After Constitutionalism : Current Pathways of Legal Domination / Julia Eckert and Kiri Santer

Re-presenting Rights : Food Sovereignty and the Struggle for Postliberal Democratic Governance / Matthew Canfield

Translocal Dilemmas : Social Mobilization and Justice-Seeking Beyond the Boundaries of Law / Mark Goodale

The Enduring Logic of Mercy : Humanitarianism and the Eclipse of Human Rights / Arzoo Osanloo

Law and the Afterlives of Utopia : Reckoning with Pasts and Futures in Berlin's Housing Movement / Nitzan Shoshan

Plurinational Juristocracy and Rights from Below at Bolivia's Gas Frontier / Penelope Anthias

Law-washing the Transitional State : The Practice of Property Restitution in Post-war Kosovo / Agathe Mora

After Judicialization? Law, Authoritarian Regression, and the Defense of Indigenous Life-worlds in Guatemala / Rachel Sieder

"A Dead Child is Better Than a Missing One" : Religiosity, Technology and Aspirations for Justice Beyond Law / Kamari Clarke.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (viewed October 25, 2025).

Other Format:

Print version: Reckoning with law in excess

ISBN:

9781009499552

1009499556

9781009499583

1009499580

OCLC:

1528503618

Publisher Number:

CIPO000261299

CIPO000288589

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license

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