Mobile People, Mobile Law

Expanding Legal Relations in a Contracting World

Franz von Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von Benda-Beckmann

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9781138275133
• eBook ISBN:
  9781351917148
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: International Law
• Index: Law

Demonstrating how users of law, who often operate in multi-sited situations, are forced to deal with increasingly complex legal circumstances, this volume focuses on political and social processes through which people appropriate, use and create legal forms in multiple legal settings. It provides new insights into social and political processes through which transnational law is locally appropriated by different actors and presents empirical studies of confrontation, adaptation, vernacularization and hybridization of law due to its transplantation across the borders of national states. The contributors offer insights into modern dynamics of legal change, challenging assumptions about increasing homogeneity in law, with a keen eye for the historical situations in which current legal changes stand.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Mobile People, Mobile Law: An Introduction
• 2 Transborder Citizenship: An Outcome of Legal Pluralism within Transnational Social Fields
• 3 Transnational Migration and the Re-Framing of Normative Values
• 4 ‘Global Fire’: Repatriation and Reparations from a Rastafari (Re)Migrant’s Perspective
• 5 McTradition in the New South Africa: Commodified Custom and Rights Talk with the Bafokeng and the Bapedi
• 6 Democracy in Flux: Time, Mobility and Sedentarization of Law in Minangkabau, Indonesia
• 7 Mobile Law and Globalism: Epistemic Communities versus Community-Based Innovation in the Fisheries Sector
• 8 Contesting Decentralization: Transnational Policy Narratives and the Emergence of Volatile Socio-Legal Configurations in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia
• 9 Negotiating Water Rights in the Context of a New Political and Legal Landscape in Zimbabwe
• 10 The Americanization of International Law
• 11 Human Rights and Global Legal Pluralism: Reciprocity and Disjuncture
• 12 Project Law – Normative Orders of Bilateral Development Cooperation and Social Change: A Case Study from the German Agency for Technical Cooperation
• 13 School and Religious Difference: Current Negotiations within the Swiss Immigrant Society – Viewed in a Comparative Perspective
• 14 Localizing the Global: Rights of Participation in the Scottish Children’s Hearings System
• 15 Mobility versus Law, Mobility in the Law? Judges in Europe are Confronted with the Thorny Question ‘Which Law Applies to Litigants of Migrant Origin?’
• Index