TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baxi,Upendra
AU  - Benda-Beckmann,Franz von
AU  - Benda-Beckmann,Keebet von
AU  - Cowan,Jane K.
AU  - Greenhouse,Carol J.
AU  - Griffiths,Anne
AU  - Kandel,Randy F.
AU  - Kearney,John F.
AU  - Nader,Laura
AU  - Pirie,Fernanda
AU  - Weilenmann,Markus
AU  - Whitecross,Richard W.
AU  - Wiber,Melanie G.
TI  - The Power of Law in a Transnational World: Anthropological Enquiries 
SN  - 9781845454234
AV  - K236 .P683 2009 
U1  - 303.3 
PY  - 2009///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Law and anthropology
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Law and globalization
KW  - Law
KW  - Mobility
KW  - Legal polycentricity
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Development Studies, Anthropology (General)
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction THE POWER OF LAW --; POWER OF LAW AS DISCOURSE Claims to Legitimacy and Higher Morality --; 1 THE MILITARY ORDER OF 13 NOVEMBER 2001 An Ethnographic Reading --; 2 LAW AND THE FRONTIERS OF ILLEGALITIES --; 3 SELECTIVE SCRUTINY Supranational Engagement with Minority Protection and Rights in Europe --; 4 THE GLOBALIZATION OF FATWAS AMIDST THE TERROR WARS AGAINST PLURALISM --; 5 HUMAN RIGHTS, CULTURAL RELATIVISM AND LEGAL PLURALISM Towards a Two-dimensional Debate --; AT THE INTERSECTION OF LEGALITIES --; 6 LEARNING COMMUNITIES AND LEGAL SPACES Community-based Fisheries Management in a Globalizing World --; 7 PROJECT LAW – A POWER INSTRUMENT OF DEVELOPMENT AGENCIES A Case Study from Burundi --; 8 HALF-TOLD TRUTHS AND PARTIAL SILENCE Managing Communication in Scottish Children’s Hearings --; RELIGION AS A RESOURCE IN LEGAL PLURALISM --; 9 KEEPING THE STREAM OF JUSTICE CLEAR AND PURE The Buddhicization of Bhutanese Law --; 10 BALANCING ISLAM, ADAT AND THE STATE Comparing Islamic and Civil Courts in Indonesia --; 11 KINGS, MONKS, BUREAUCRATS AND THE POLICE Tibetan Responses to Law and Authority --; Notes on Contributors --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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 to other legal modes of control and regulation at both local and supranational levels
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781845459161
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781845459161
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781845459161/original
ER  -