Boaventura de Sousa Santos

Law and the Epistemologies of the South

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Produktbeschreibung

Modern state law excludes populations, peoples, and social groups by making them invisible, irrelevant, or dangerous. In this book, Boaventura de Sousa Santos offers a radical critique of the law and develops an innovative paradigm of socio-legal studies which is based on the historical experience of the Global South. He traces the history of modern law as an abyssal law, or a kind of law that is theoretically invisible yet implements profound exclusions in practice. This abyssal line has been the key procedure used by modern modes of domination ¿ capitalism, colonialism, and patriarchy ¿ to divide people into two groups, the metropolitan and the colonial, or the fully human and the sub-human. Crucially, de Sousa Santos rejects the decadent pessimism that claims that we are living through 'the end of history'. Instead, this book offers practical, hopeful alternatives to social exclusion and modern legal domination, aiming to make post-abyssal legal utopias a reality.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 1261g
• ISBN-13: 9781107157866
• ISBN-10: 1107157862
• Artikelnr.: 67040583

Autorenporträt

Boaventura de Sousa Santos is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the School of Economics, University of Coimbra, Portugal, and Distinguished Legal Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. He has written and published widely in Portuguese, Spanish, English, Italian, French, German, Chinese, Danish, Romanian, Arabic and Polish. His current research interests are epistemology, sociology of law, post-colonial theory, democracy, interculturality, globalization, social movements and human rights. One of his most recent publications is The End of the Cognitive Empire: The Coming of Age of Epistemologies of the South (2018).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The Tragic Optimism of the Law: The End of a Story: 1. Unsettling
times; 2. The end of legal reformism? Lineages of legal reformism; 3. The
early demise of legal reformism: my journey through the Law and
Modernization Program at Yale University; 4. Room for manoeuvre: Paradox,
programme, or Pandora's Box?; Part II. Epistemologies of the South and the
Law: 5. Introducing the epistemologies of the South; 6. The epistemologies
of the South and law: towards a post-abyssal law; 7. Is post-abyssal law
possible? Part III. The Abyssal Law under the Mode of Abyssal Exclusion: 8.
Lawfare: a long history; 9. Colonial law and imperial law; 10. Colonial
legal duality: the creation of legal codes for indigenous populations; Part
IV. Real Legal Utopias: Interrupting the State: 11. The heterogeneous
state, legal plurality and traditional authorities in Africa: the case of
Mozambique; 12. The rise of a micro dual state: a case of highly
politicised legal pluralism; 13. The refoundation of the state in Bolivia
and Ecuador?; Part V. Real Legal Utopias: Interrupting the Law: 14. Law and
revolution in Portugal: experiences of popular justice after the carnation
revolution of 1974; 15. Popular justice in cape verde; 16. The landless
rural workers' movement in Brazil and its struggles for access to law and
justice; 17. The law of the excluded: indigenous justice and
plurinationality in Bolivia and Ecuador; 18. Decolonising justice and
democratic peace in Colombia; Part VI. Real Legal Utopias: Interrupting
Hegemonic Human Rights: 19. Human rights in a post-secular age:
counter-hegemony and progressive theologies; 20. Towards an insurgent,
intercultural and cosmopolitan declaration of human rights and duties; 21.
Rights of nature.