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Title Law against the state : ethnographic forays into law's transformations / [edited by] Julia Eckert [and others]
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource
Series Cambridge studies in law and society
Cambridge studies in law and society.
Contents Cover; LAW AGAINST THE STATE; CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN LAW AND SOCIETY; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION: LAW'S TRAVELS AND TRANSFORMATIONS; INTRODUCTION; THE GLOBALISATION OF LAW; DEPOLITICISATION; DISTANCES; TRANSLATIONS; THE DIALECTIC OF LAW'S TRANSFORMATIONS; TRANSFORMING SUBJECTIVITIES; THE STRUCTURATION OF ITERATION; BETWEEN DOXA AND THE FUTURE; CHAPTER 1 JURIDIFICATION OF INDIGENOUS POLITICS; SUBSISTENCE RIGHTS IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA; LOSS OF A WAY OF LIFE AND THE RIGHT TO A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT IN THE MARSHALL ISLANDS; FREEDOM IN SURINAME; CONCLUSION
Summary This volume investigates the use of law by ordinary individuals and groups as a form of protest against 'the state'
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Public interest law -- Developing countries
Ethnological jurisprudence -- Developing countries
Law and economic development
Government litigation -- Developing countries
Law -- Political aspects -- Developing countries
Indigenous peoples -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Developing countries
LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Ethnological jurisprudence
Government litigation
Indigenous peoples -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Law and economic development
Law -- Political aspects
Public interest law
Developing countries
Form Electronic book
Author Eckert, Julia M., editor.
Donahoe, Brian, editor.
Strümpell, Christian, 1972- editor.
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