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Author : Ronald Niezen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Human rights
ISBN : 0511860544
Ronald Niezen examines the impact of public opinion on the processes by which human rights are defended in international law.
Author : Ronald Niezen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781139493192
In this powerful, timely study Ronald Niezen examines the processes by which cultural concepts are conceived and collective rights are defended in international law. Niezen argues that cultivating support on behalf of those experiencing human rights violations often calls for strategic representations of injustice and suffering to distant audiences. The positive impulse behind public responses to political abuse can be found in the satisfaction of justice done. But the fact that oppressed peoples and their supporters from around the world are competing for public attention is actually a profound source of global difference, stemming from differential capacities to appeal to a remote, unknown public. Niezen's discussion of the impact of public opinion on law provides fresh insights into the importance of legally-constructed identity and the changing pathways through which it is being shaped - crucial issues for all those with an interest in anthropology, politics and human rights law.
Author : Fernanda Pirie,Judith Scheele
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191025921
'Community' and 'justice' recur in anthropological, historical, and legal scholarship, yet as concepts they are notoriously slippery. Historians and lawyers look to anthropologists as 'community specialists', but anthropologists often avoid the concept through circumlocution: although much used (and abused) by historians, legal thinkers, and political philosophers, the term remains strikingly indeterminate and often morally overdetermined. 'Justice', meanwhile, is elusive, alternately invoked as the goal of contemporary political theorizing, and wrapped in obscure philosophical controversy. A conceptual knot emerges in much legal and political thought between law, justice, and community, but theories abound, without any agreement over concepts. The contributors to this volume use empirical case studies to unpick threads of this knot. Local codes from Anglo-Saxon England, north Africa, and medieval Armenia indicate disjunctions between community boundaries and the subjects of local rules and categories; processes of justice from early modern Europe to eastern Tibet suggest new ways of conceptualizing the relationship between law and justice; and practices of exile that recur throughout the world illustrate contingent formulations of community. In the first book in the series, Legalism: Anthropology and History, law was addressed through a focus on local legal categories as conceptual tools. Here this approach is extended to the ideas and ideals of justice and community. Rigorous cross-cultural comparison allows the contributors to avoid normative assumptions, while opening new avenues of inquiry for lawyers, anthropologists, and historians alike.
Author : Laura Nader
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002-02-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780520229884
Nader traces the evolution of the plaintiff's role in the United States in the second half of the twentieth century and convincingly argues that the atrophy of the plaintiff's power during this period undermines democracy.".
Author : Marie-Claire Foblets,Maria Sapignoli,Brian Donahoe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781040031711
This book draws on concrete cases of collaboration between anthropologists and legal practitioners to critically assess the use of anthropological expertise in a variety of legal contexts from the point of view of the anthropologist as well as of the decision-maker or legal practitioner. The contributions, several of which are co-authored by anthropologist–legal practitioner tandems, deal with the roles of and relationships between anthropologists and legal professionals, which are often collaborative, interdisciplinary, and complementary. Such interactions go far beyond courts and litigation into areas of law that might be called ‘social justice activism’. They also entail close collaboration with the people –often subjects of violence and dispossession –with whom the anthropologists and legal practitioners are working. The aim of this collection is to draw on past experiences to come up with practical methodological suggestions for facilitating this interaction and collaboration and for enhancing the efficacy of the use of anthropological expertise in legal contexts. Explicitly designed to bridge the gap between theory and practice, and between scholarship and practical application, the book will appeal to scholars and researchers engaged in anthropology, legal anthropology, socio-legal studies, and asylum and migration law. It will also be of interest to legal practitioners and applied social scientists, who can glean valuable lessons regarding the challenges and rewards of genuine collaboration between legal practitioners and social scientists.
Author : Ronald Niezen
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781487594398
The original edition of Truth and Indignation offered the first close and critical assessment of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) as it was unfolding. Niezen used testimonies, texts, and visual materials produced by the Commission as well as interviews with survivors, priests, and nuns to raise important questions about the TRC process. He asked what the TRC meant for reconciliation, transitional justice, and conceptions of traumatic memory. In this updated edition, Niezen discusses the Final Repot and Calls to Action bringing the book up to date and making it a valuable text for teaching about transitional justice, colonialism and redress, public anthropology, and human rights. Thoughtful, provocative, and uncompromising in the need to tell the "truth" as he sees it, Niezen offers an important contribution to understanding truth and reconciliation processes in general, an the Canadian experience in particular.
Author : Lola Romanucci-Ross,Laurence R. Tancredi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781402027574
What happens when two systems, law and medicine, are joined in the arena of the court? This work deals with the structure and the premises of two diverse discourse models; the approach is anthropological. Several chapters are preponderantly based on legal research, addressing cases requiring testimony by expert witnesses on recent technologies used in the laboratories of medical scientists. Descriptions of other societies and cultures consider the identical problems of rights, privileges, and duties, and provide perspectives to cultural self-knowledge. This volume can be used as a text for courses taught in medical schools and law schools. It will be of particular interest to students taking courses in health science, public health, medical anthropology, forensic anthropology, psychology, sociology, public justice, behavioral sciences, forensic psychiatry, legal anthropology, social welfare, as well as courses on research models.
Author : Ronald Niezen
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487594381
Truth and Indignation, originally published before the conclusion of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, offered the first close and critical assessment of the TRC as it was unfolding. This new edition includes an epilogue that discusses the Final Report and Calls to Action that emerged from the work of the commission, bringing the book up to date and making it a valuable text for understanding transitional justice, colonialism and redress, public anthropology, and human rights. Niezen uses testimonies, texts, and visual materials produced by the commission as well as interviews with survivors, priests, and nuns to raise important questions about what the TRC truly means for reconciliation.
Author : Pnina Werbner,Richard Werbner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Customary law
ISBN : 1032149469
This book presents an important ethnographic and theoretical advance in legal anthropological scholarship by interrogating customary law, customary courts and legal pluralism in sub-Saharan Africa. It highlights the vitality and continued relevance of customary justice at a time when customary courts have waned or even disappeared in many postcolonial African nations. Taking Botswana as a casestudy from in-depth fieldwork over a fifty-year period, the book shows, the 'customary' is robustly enduring, central to settling interpersonal disputes and constitutive of the local as well as the national public ethics. Customary law continues to be constitutionally protected, authorised by the country's past as an authentic, viable legacy, from the British colonial period of indirect rule, to the postcolony's present development as a highly bureaucratised democracy. Along with a theoretical overview of the underlying issues for the anthropology and sociology of law, the book documents customary law as living law in the context of legal pluralism. It takes a legal realist approach and highlights the need to pay close attention to the lived experience of justice and its role in the production of legal subjectivities. The book will be valuable to Africanists but also, more broadly, to social scientists, social historians and socio-legal scholars with interests in law and social change, public ethics and personal morality, and the intersection of politics and judicial decision-making.
Author : Sandra Brunnegger,Karen Ann Faulk
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804799119
Throughout Latin America, the idea of "justice" serves as the ultimate goal and rationale for a wide variety of actions and causes. In the Chilean Atacama Desert, residents have undertaken a prolonged struggle for their right to groundwater. Family members of bombing victims in Buenos Aires demand that the state provide justice for the attack. In Colombia, some victims of political violence have turned to the courts for resolution, while others reject the state's ability to fairly adjudicate their grievances and have constructed a non-state tribunal. In each of these examples, the protagonists seek one main thing: justice. A Sense of Justice ethnographically explores the complex dynamics of justice production across Latin America. The chapters examine (in)justice as it is lived and imagined today and what it means for those who claim and regulate its parameters, including the Brazilian police force, the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal in Colombia, and the Argentine Supreme Court. Inextricable as "justice" is from inequality, violence, crime, and corruption, it emerges through memory, in space, and where ideals meet practical limitations. Ultimately, the authors show how understanding the dynamic processes of constructing justice is essential to creating cooperative rather than oppressive forms of law.
Author : James M. Donovan,H. Edwin Anderson
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Law
ISBN : 157181423X
Legal practice renders a further important benefit to anthropology when it validates anthropological knowledge through the use of anthropologists as expert witnesses in the courtroom and the introduction of the 'culture defense' against criminal charges."--Jacket.
Author : Edward J. Hedican
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442635906
Contemporary anthropology has changed drastically in the new millennium, expanding beyond the anachronistic study of "primitive" societies to confront the burning social, economic, and political challenges of the day. In the process, anthropologists often come face to face with issues that require them to take a public position—issues such as race and tolerance, health and well-being, food security, reconciliation and public justice, global terror and militarism, and digital media This comprehensive but accessible book is both an interesting read and an excellent overview of public anthropology. In-depth case studies offer an opportunity to evaluate the pros and cons of engaging with public issues, while profiles of select anthropologists ensure the book is contemporary, but rooted in the history of the discipline.
Author : Ronald Niezen,Maria Sapignoli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107127494
This book assembles a range of work by researchers who have entered the social worlds of global organizations.
Author : Sandra Brunnegger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108487214
Provides rich ethnographic analysis and offers a critical ethnographic approach to justice.
Author : Marie-Bénédicte Dembour,Tobias Kelly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780521882637
This volume examines how international justice can take purchase despite social conflict and political violence.
