Law and Globalization from Below (eBook, PDF)

Towards a Cosmopolitan Legality
Redaktion: Santos, Boaventura De Sousa

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is an unprecedented attempt to analyze the role of the law in the global movement for social justice. Case studies in the book are written by leading scholars from both the global South and the global North, and combine empirical research on the ground with innovative sociolegal theory to shed new light on a wide array of topics. Among the issues examined are the role of law and politics in the World Social Forum; the struggle of the anti-sweatshop movement for the protection of international labour rights; and the challenge to neoliberal globalization and liberal human rights raised by grassroots movements in India and indigenous peoples around the world. These and other cases, the editors argue, signal the emergence of a subaltern cosmopolitan law and politics that calls for new social and legal theories capable of capturing the potential and tensions of counter-hegemonic globalization.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511128639
• Artikelnr.: 38197584

Autorenporträt

Professor of Sociology at the University of Coimbra, Portugal and Distinguished Legal Scholar of the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Assistant Professor of Law and Sociology at the University of Los Andes, Colombia and Fellow of the Institute for Legal Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on the contributors; 1. Law, politics, and the subaltern in
counter-hegemonic globalization Boaventura de Sousa Santos and César A.
Rodríguez-Garavito; Part I. Law and the Construction of a Global Economy of
Solidarity: 2. Beyond neoliberal governance: the World Social Forum as
subaltern cosmopolitan politics and legality Boaventura de Sousa Santos; 3.
Nike's law: the anti-sweatshop movement, transnational corporations, and
the struggle over international labor rights in the Americas César A.
Rodríguez-Garavito; 4. Corporate social responsibility: a case of hegemony
and counter-hegemony Ronen Shamir; 5. Campaigning for life: building a new
transnational solidarity in the face of HIV/AIDS and TRIPS Heinz Klug; 6.
Negotiating informality within formality: land and housing in the Texas
colonias Jane E. Larson; 7. Local contact points at global divides: labor
rights and immigrant rights as sites for cosmopolitanism legality Fran
Ansley; Part II. Transnational Social Movements and the Reconstruction of
Human Rights: 8. Limits of law in counter-hegemonic globalization: the
Indian Supreme Court and the Narmada Valley struggle Balakrishnan
Rajagopal; 9. The Movement of the Landless (MST), juridicial field, and
legal change in Brazil Peter P. Houtzager; 10. Indigenous rights,
transnational activism, and legal mobilization: the struggle of the U'wa
people in Colombia César A. Rodríguez-Garavito and Luis Carlos Arenas; 11.
Defensive and oppositional counter-hegemonic uses of international law:
from the International Criminal Court to the common heritage of humankind
José Manuel Pureza; Part III. Law and Participatory Democracy: Between the
Local and the Global: 12. Political and legal struggles over resources and
democracy: experiences with gender budgeting in Tanzania Mary Rusimbi and
Marjorie Mbilinyi; 13. Two democracies, two legalities: participatory
budgeting in Porto Alegre, Brazil Boaventura de Sousa Santos; 14. Life,
life world and life chances: vulnerability and survival in Indian
constitutional law Shiv Visvanathan and Chandrika Parmar; 15. Bottom-up
environmental law and democracy in the risk society: Portuguese experiences
in the European context João Arriscado Nunes, Marisa Matias and Susana
Costa; Index.

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Notes on the contributors; 1. Law, politics, and the subaltern in counter-hegemonic globalization Boaventura de Sousa Santos and César A. Rodríguez-Garavito; Part I. Law and the Construction of a Global Economy of Solidarity: 2. Beyond neoliberal governance: the World Social Forum as subaltern cosmopolitan politics and legality Boaventura de Sousa Santos; 3. Nike's law: the anti-sweatshop movement, transnational corporations, and the struggle over international labor rights in the Americas César A. Rodríguez-Garavito; 4. Corporate social responsibility: a case of hegemony and counter-hegemony Ronen Shamir; 5. Campaigning for life: building a new transnational solidarity in the face of HIV/AIDS and TRIPS Heinz Klug; 6. Negotiating informality within formality: land and housing in the Texas colonias Jane E. Larson; 7. Local contact points at global divides: labor rights and immigrant rights as sites for cosmopolitanism legality Fran Ansley; Part II. Transnational Social Movements and the Reconstruction of Human Rights: 8. Limits of law in counter-hegemonic globalization: the Indian Supreme Court and the Narmada Valley struggle Balakrishnan Rajagopal; 9. The Movement of the Landless (MST), juridicial field, and legal change in Brazil Peter P. Houtzager; 10. Indigenous rights, transnational activism, and legal mobilization: the struggle of the U'wa people in Colombia César A. Rodríguez-Garavito and Luis Carlos Arenas; 11. Defensive and oppositional counter-hegemonic uses of international law: from the International Criminal Court to the common heritage of humankind José Manuel Pureza; Part III. Law and Participatory Democracy: Between the Local and the Global: 12. Political and legal struggles over resources and democracy: experiences with gender budgeting in Tanzania Mary Rusimbi and Marjorie Mbilinyi; 13. Two democracies, two legalities: participatory budgeting in Porto Alegre, Brazil Boaventura de Sousa Santos; 14. Life, life world and life chances: vulnerability and survival in Indian constitutional law Shiv Visvanathan and Chandrika Parmar; 15. Bottom-up environmental law and democracy in the risk society: Portuguese experiences in the European context João Arriscado Nunes, Marisa Matias and Susana Costa; Index.

Rezensionen

"Law and Globalization from Below is a collection of deeply insightful and challenging essays."
Benedict Sheehy, The Law and Politics Book Review