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A sense of justice : legal knowledge and lived experience in Latin America
- Title
- A sense of justice : legal knowledge and lived experience in Latin America / edited by Sandra Brunnegger and Karen Ann Faulk.
- Publication
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2016]
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- Description
- x, 228 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- Throughout Latin America, the idea of 'justice' serves as the ultimate goal and rationale for a wide variety of actions and causes. In the Chilean Atacama Desert, residents have undertaken a prolonged struggle for their right to groundwater. Family members of bombing victims in Buenos Aires demand that the state provide justice for the attack. In Colombia, some victims of political violence have turned to the courts for resolution, while others reject the state's ability to fairly adjudicate their grievances and have constructed a non-state tribunal. In each of these examples, the protagonists seek one main thing: justice. This book ethnographically explores the complex dynamics of justice production across Latin America.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Transitional justice, memory, and the emergence of legal subjectivities in Colombia / Juan Pablo Vera Lugo -- Pursuing justice in Jewish Buenos Aires / Karen Ann Faulk -- Justice, rights, and discretionary space in Brazilian policing / Graham Denyer Willis -- Imaginaries of judicial practice among legal experts in Argentina / Leticia Barrera -- The craft of justice-making through the permanent peoples' tribunal in Colombia / Sandra Brunnegger -- On justice, insecurity, and the right to the city in Brazil's oldest metropolis / Marta Magalhães Wallace -- Water justice, mining, and the fetish form of law in the Atacama Desert / Alonso Barros -- Conclusion : justice at the limits of law / Mark Goodale.
- ISBN
- 9780804797962
- 080479796X
- 9780804799072
- 0804799075
- 9780804799119 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2015034973
- OCLC
- ocn921142443
- 921142443
- SCSB-1862573
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library