Tobias Berger

Global Norms and Local Courts

Translating the Rule of Law in Bangladesh

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the interaction between global norms and local contexts, from global norms about 'the rule of law' from the desks of development experts in Brussels to villages in rural Bangladesh, and what happens to 'the rule of law'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9780198807865
• ISBN-10: 0198807864
• Artikelnr.: 48064948

Autorenporträt

Tobias Berger is Assistant Professor in Politics and International Relations at the Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science at the Freie Universität Berlin. Having studied at SOAS, Oxford, and Berlin, he obtained he PhD at the Freie Unviersität in 2014. He was a visiting postdoctoral fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale and a Junior Visiting Fellow at the Institute for the Human Sciences in Vienna. His research interests are located at the intersection of International Relations, Legal Anthropology, and Political Theory.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction: Global Norms and Local Courts
Part I
2: Norms in Translations
3: The Village Courts in Bangladesh
4: Between the State and the Shalish: the Logic of Non-Enforcement
Part II
5: The Project 'Activating the Village Courts'
6: Translating Institutions
7: Translating Practices and Normative Orders
8: Conclusion: All that's Lost in Re-Translation