Sieder / Ansolabehere / Alfonso Routledge Handbook of Law and Society in Latin America

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-317-29127-5
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 494 Seiten

Understanding law and its efficacy in Latin America demands concepts distinct from the hegemonic notions of rule of law which have dominated debates on law, politics and society, and that recognize the diversity of situations and contexts characterizing the region. Scholarship about Latin America has made vital contributions to longstanding and emerging theoretical and methodological debates on the relationship between law and society and now, it is time for their critical evaluation.

The Routledge Handbook of Law and Society in Latin America presents new original research, and a cutting-edge analysis on the central theoretical and applied areas of enquiry in socio-legal studies in the region. Surveying research published in English, Spanish and Portuguese, leading figures in the study of law and society from Latin America, North America and Europe examine the gap between law-on-the-books and law in action, the implications of legal pluralism and legal globalization, the legacies of experiences of transitional justice, emerging forms of sociolegal and political mobilization, and debates concerning the relationship between the legal and the illegal.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sieder, Rachel

Ansolabehere, Karina

Alfonso, Tatiana

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Über Autor(innen)

Rachel Sieder has held the post of Senior Research Professor at the Center for Research and Graduate Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS) in Mexico City since 2007. She is also Associate Senior Researcher at the Chr. Michelsen Institute in Bergen, Norway, and Associate Fellow at the Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London. Her research interests include: human rights, indigenous rights, social movements, indigenous law, legal anthropology, the state and violence. Sieder is widely published and some her most recent books include ed. with María Teresa Sierra and Rosalva Aída Hernández, Justicias Indígenas y Estado: Violencias Contemporáneas (2013); ed. with John-Andrew McNeish, Gender Justice and Legal Pluralities: Latin American and African Perspectives (2012); ed. with Line Schjolden and Alan Angell, La Judicialización de la Política en América Latina, CIESAS, México/ Editorial Universidad Externado de Colombia (2011); ed. with Javier Couso and Alex Huneeus, Cultures of Legality: Judicialization and Political Activism in Latin America, Cambridge University Press (2010). She is a member of the international editorial boards of the Journal of Latin American Studies (JLAS) and Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies (LACES).

Karina Ansolabehere is Professor at the Latin American School of Social Sciences, campus Mexico (Flacso México) since 2003. Her topics of interest are: judicial politics, human rights, judicializacion of human rights, legal cultures and political theory, with special focus in Latin America. She has taught courses on sociology of law, judicial politics, human rights and political theory. She is a member of the National Researchers System of Mexico. Ansalobehere has a degree in sociology from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a Ph.D. in Social Sciences with especialization in Political Sciences from Flacso Mexico. She is author of The policy from the justice. Supreme Courts, government and democracy in Argentina and Mexico (2007) and scientific director of the Spanish edition of the Dictionary of Human Rights. Citizenship Culture in the Globalization Era (2009) as well as many chapters and articles such as: (2010) “More Power, more Rights? The Supreme Court and Society in Mexico”, in Hunneeus, A: Couso, J; Sieder, R (ed.) Legal Cultures and political activism in Latin America, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.