A Sense of Justice – Legal Knowledge and Lived Experience in Latin America

A Sense of JusticeLegal Knowledge and Lived Experience in Latin America\nAuthor(s): Sandra Brunnegger, Karen Ann Faulk\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780804799072, 978-0804799072\nSynopsis\nThroughout 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.\n\n A Sense of Justice ethnographically explores the complex dynamics of justice produc.