Mobile people, mobile law : expanding legal relations in a contracting world / edited by Franz von Benda-Beckmann, Keebert von Benda-Beckmann, Anne Griffiths.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Benda-Beckmann, Franz von.

Benda-Beckmann, Keebert von.

Griffiths, Anne M. O.

Series:

Law, justice, and power.

Law, justice and power series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Mobility.

Law.

Culture and law.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 pages)

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2016.

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. It provides new insights into social and political processes through which transnational law is locally appropriated by different actors and presents empirical studies of confrontation, adaptation, vernacularization and hybridization of law due to its transplantation across the borders of national states. The contributors offer insights into modern dynamics of legal change, challenging assumptions about increasing homogeneity in law, with a keen eye for the historical situations in which current legal changes stand.

Contents:

1. Mobile people, mobile law : an introduction / Franz von Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von Benda-Beckmann and Anne Griffiths

2. Transborder citizenship : an outcome of legal pluralism within transnational social fields / Nina Glick Schiller

3. Transnational migration and the re-framing of normative values / Monique Nuijten

4. 'Global fire' : repatriation and reparations from a Rastafari (re)migrant's perspective / Werner Zips

5. McTradition in the new South Africa : commodified custom and rights talk with the Bafokeng and the Bapedi / Barbara Oomen

6. Democracy in flux : time, mobility and sedentarization of law in Minangkabau, Indonesia / Franz and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann

7. Mobile law and globalism : epistemic communities versus community-based innovation in the fisheries sector / Melanie G. Wiber

8. Contesting decentralization : transnational policy narratives and the emergence of volatile socio-legal configurations in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia / John F. McCarthy

9. Negotiating water rights in the context of a new political and legal landscape in Zimbabwe / Anne Hellum and Bill derman

10. The Americanization of international law / Laura Nader

11. Human rights and global legal pluralism : reciprocity and disjuncture / Sally E. Merry

12. Project law : normative orders of bilateral development cooperation and social change : a case study from the German agency for technical cooperation / Markus Weilenmann

13. School and religious difference: current negotiations within the Swiss Immigrant Society : viewed in a comparative perspective / Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka

14. Localizing the global : rights of participation in the Scottish children's hearings system / Anne Griffiths and Randy F. Kandel

15. Mobility versus law, mobility in the law? Judges in Europe are confronted with the thorny question 'Which law applies to litigants of migrant origin?' / Marie-Claire Foblets.

Notes:

First published 2005 by Ashgate Publishing.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-138-27513-1

1-315-24880-8

1-351-91714-5

9781315248806

OCLC:

988376523