Law and Globalization from Below : Towards a Cosmopolitan Legality Paperback / softback
Edited by Boaventura (Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal) de Sousa Santos, Cesar A. (University of Wisconsin, Madison) Rodriguez-Garavito
Part of the Cambridge Studies in Law and Society series
Paperback / softback
Description
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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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:412 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:08/09/2005
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- ISBN:9780521607353
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:412 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:08/09/2005
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521607353
