Law, Power and Culture

Supporting Change From Within
2014
ISBN: 978-0-230-30453-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 190 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 477 g

Reihe: Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies

A fresh theory on how individuals respond to inequalities occurring within their own communities. This original and insightful study draws on empirical research on the Santal people of Asia, examining power relations within social fields, and the state, to reveal a typology of power practices, and applies these to forced marriage in the West.

Zielgruppe

Lower undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Knight, F.

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. Power, Resistance And Legal Pluralism: Processes of Freedom and Constraint.- 3. The Santal: Processes of Subordination in the State.- 4. The Primary Construction of Inequality: Kinship, Law and Ritual in the Santal Family and Village.- 5. Resisting from Without: The Illusive Promise of the Alternative Legal Order.- 6. The Realisation of Needs from Within: The Power Product and Non-Compliance.- 7. A Tripartite Theory: Power Practices and Embedded Change.- 8. Forced Marriage: Engaging with Renegotiations Within.- 9. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Fauzia Knight is an independent scholar based in the UK and former Joint Director of the BA in Anthropology and Law at the London School of Ecomomics and Political Science.