| Description |
vi, 309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Law, meaning, and violence |
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Law, meaning, and violence.
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| Contents |
Laws of the postcolonial / Peter Fitzpatrick and Eve Darian-Smith -- Approaching anxiety / Colin Perrin -- Passions out of place / Peter Fitzpatrick -- A moral geography of liberty / Paul A. Passavant -- Francisco de Vitoria and the colonial origins of international law / Antony Anghie -- Islamic law and English texts / John Strawson -- The view from the international plane / Annelise Riles -- Subalternity and international law / Dianne Otto -- An ontological approach to constitutionalism in Sri Lanka / Roshan de Silva -- Postcolonialism / Jeannine Purdy -- Rites of passage into the global village / Rolando Gaete -- From law to popular justice / Alan Norrie -- Rabies rides the fast train / Eve Darian-Smith |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Cultural relativism.
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Culture and law.
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Legal polycentricity.
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Multiculturalism -- Law and legislation.
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Postcolonialism.
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| Author |
Darian-Smith, Eve, 1963-
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Fitzpatrick, Peter, 1941-
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| LC no. |
98051222 |
| ISBN |
0472109561 alkaline paper |
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