Law against the State Ethnographic Forays into Law's Transformations Eckert

Law against the StateEthnographic Forays into Law's Transformations\nAuthor(s): Julia Eckert, Brian Donahoe, Christian Strmpell, Zerrin zlem Biner\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781107014664, 978-1107014664\nSynopsis\nThis collection of rich, empirically grounded case studies investigates the conditions and consequences of 'juridification' - the use of law by ordinary individuals as a form of protest against 'the state'. Starting from the actual practices of claimants, these case studies address the translation and interpretation of legal norms into local concepts, actions and practices in a way that highlights the social and cultural dynamism and multivocality of communities in their interaction with the law and legal norms. The contributors to this volume challenge the image of homogeneous and primordially norm-bound cultures that has been (unintentionally) perpetuated by some of the more prev.