Mobile People, Mobile Law. Expanding Legal Relations in a Contracting World
Year: 2005
Type: book
Abstract: Contents: Mobile people, mobile law: an introduction, Franz von Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von Benda-Beckmann and Anne Griffiths Transborder citizenship: an outcome of legal pluralism within transnational social fields, Nina Glick Schiller Transnational migration and the re-framing of normative values, Monique Nuijten 'Global fire': repatriation and reparations from a Rastafari (re)migrants perspective, Werner Zips McTradition in the new South Africa: commodified custom and rights talk with the Bafokeng and the Bapedi, Barbara Oomen Democracy in flux: time, mobility and sedentarization of law in Minangkabau, Indonesia, Franz von Benda-Beckmann and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann Mobile law and globalism: epistemic communities versus community-based innovation in the fisheries sector, Melanie G. Wiber Contesting decentralization: transitional policy narratives and the emergence of volatile socio-legal configurations in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, John F. McCarthy Negotiating water rights in the context of a new political and legal landscape in Zimbabwe, Anne Hellum and Bill Derman The Americanization of international law, Laura Nader Human rights and global legal pluralism: reciprocity and disjuncture, Sally E. Merry Project law - normative orders of bilateral development cooperation and social change: a case study from the German Agency for Technical Co-operation, Markus Weilenmann School and religious difference: current negotiations within the Swiss immigrant society - viewed in a comparative perspective, Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka Localizing the global: rights of participation in the Scottish Children's Hearings System, Anne Griffiths and Randy F. Kandel Mobility versus law, mobility in the law? Judges in Europe are confronted with the thorny question 'which law applies to litigants of migrant origin?' , Marie-Claire Foblets Index.
Language: English
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1580619940