Political and Legal Transformations of an Indonesian Polity
Political and Legal Transformations of an Indonesian Polity

Author: Franz von Benda-Beckmann

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-08-15

Total Pages: 529

ISBN-13: 110743484X

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Political and Legal Transformations of an Indonesian Polity is a long-term study of the historical transformations of the Minangkabau polity of nagari, property relations and the ever-changing dynamic relationships between Minangkabau matrilineal adat law, Islamic law and state law. While the focus is on the period since the fall of President Suharto in 1998, the book charts a long history of political and legal transformations before and after Indonesia's independence, in which the continuities are as notable as the changes. It also throws light on the transnational processes through which legal and political ideas spread and acquire new meanings. The multi-temporal historical approach adopted is also relevant to the more general discussions of the relationship between anthropology and history, the creation of customary law, identity construction, and the anthropology of colonialism.

Shifting Legal Visions
Shifting Legal Visions

Author: Ezequiel A. González-Ocantos

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-08-18

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 1316720918

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What explains the success of criminal prosecutions against former Latin American officials accused of human rights violations? Why did some judiciaries evolve from unresponsive bureaucracies into protectors of victim rights? Using a theory of judicial action inspired by sociological institutionalism, this book argues that this was the result of deep transformations in the legal preferences of judges and prosecutors. Judicial actors discarded long-standing positivist legal criteria, historically protective of conservative interests, and embraced doctrines grounded in international human rights law, which made possible innovative readings of constitutions and criminal codes. Litigants were responsible for this shift in legal visions by activating informal mechanisms of ideational change and providing the skills necessary to deal with complex and unusual cases. Through an in-depth exploration of the interactions between judges, prosecutors and human rights lawyers in three countries, the book asks how changing ideas about the law and standards of adjudication condition the exercise of judicial power.

The Quiet Power of Indicators
The Quiet Power of Indicators

Author: Sally Engle Merry

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-05-26

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 1107075203

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This highly accessible book investigates the rankings that increasingly influence perceptions of countries' governance and civil rights.

The Law Multiple
The Law Multiple

Author: Irene van Oorschot

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-03-04

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 1108494803

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Where, when, and how is the law practiced? An investigation of how truths are made in the legal system.

Palaces of Hope
Palaces of Hope

Author: Ronald Niezen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-01-26

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 1108107788

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This volume assembles in one place the work of scholars who are making key contributions to a new approach to the United Nations, and to global organizations and international law more generally. Anthropology has in recent years taken on global organizations as a legitimate source of its subject matter. The research that is being done in this field gives a human face to these world-reforming institutions. Palaces of Hope demonstrates that these institutions are not monolithic or uniform, even though loosely connected by a common organizational network. They vary above all in their powers and forms of public engagement. Yet there are common threads that run through the studies included here: the actions of global institutions in practice, everyday forms of hope and their frustration, and the will to improve confronted with the realities of nationalism, neoliberalism, and the structures of international power.

Lost in China?
Lost in China?

Author: Carol A. G. Jones

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-04-30

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 1316300366

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Rule of law is a core Hong Kong value, providing a defensive wall around the territory and protecting its way of life against 'mainlandisation'. Before the 1997 retrocession to China, fears were widespread that the rights and freedoms enjoyed under colonial rule would be eroded, that the rule of law would be weakened and that corruption would increase. Soon, the first blows were struck against the rule of law via an NPCSC ruling which overturned the judgment of the Court of Final Appeal. Successive interventions by Beijing in Hong Kong's legal and political affairs have given rise to fears about the loss of the rule of law and loss of identity. These fears have subsequently provoked mass street demonstrations, including the 'Umbrella Revolution' of 2014. But, as this book shows, Hong Kongers also use less explicit arts of resistance to maintain their identity.

Buried in the Heart
Buried in the Heart

Author: Erin Baines

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 1107137128

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The book explores the concept of complex victimhood through stories of women who were abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army.

Nine-Tenths of the Law
Nine-Tenths of the Law

Author: Christian Lund

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2021-01-05

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 0300251076

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An exploration of the relationship between possession and legalization across Indonesia, and how people navigate dispossession​ The old aphorism "possession is nine-tenths of the law" is particularly relevant in Indonesia, which has seen a string of regime changes and a shifting legal landscape for property claims. Ordinary people struggle to legalize their possessions and claim rights in competition with different branches of government, as well as police, army, and private gangs. This book explores the relationship between possession and legalization across Indonesia, examining the imaginative and improvisational interpretations of law by which Indonesians navigate dispossession.