Keebet von (Hrsg.) Benda-Beckmann

The Power of Law in a Transnational World

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How is law mobilized and who has the power and authority to construct its meaning? This important volume examines this question as well as how law is constituted and reconfigured through social processes that frame both its continuity and transformation over time. The volume highlights how power is deployed under conditions of legal pluralism, exploring its effects on livelihoods and on social institutions, including the state. Such an approach not only demonstrates how the state, through its various development programs and organizational structures, attempts to control territory and people, but also relates the mechanisms of state control… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Benda-Beckmann, Franz von (Hrsg.) / Griffiths, Anne (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-84545-916-1
EAN: 9781845459161
Produktnummer: 20451095
Verlag: Berghahn Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Seitenangabe: 280 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 528 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor

Keebet von Benda-Beckmann is head of the Project Group Legal Pluralism at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany. She also is an honorary professor in Leipzig and Halle. Her research in Indonesia and the Netherlands focuses on legal pluralism, social security, governance and on the role of religion in disputing processes.