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OverviewThis book examines the ways in which ideas about 'the rule of law' travel from the desks of development experts in Brussels and New York to national headquarters in Dhaka and on to villages in rural Bangladesh. The central argument of the book is that these ideas need to change as they travel. To change the ways in which courts are operating in a specific place, ideas about 'the rule of law' need to be translated in ways that make sense to people within that contexts. This book analyses one such process of translation in Bangladesh. It shows how the grassroots level fieldworker of local NGOs translate the rule of law (for example when they translate this secular notion for religious discourses about Islam) and thereby improve the access of poor and marginalized people to local courts. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Tobias Berger (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science, Freie Universitat Berlin)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 17.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 24.20cm Weight: 0.472kg ISBN: 9780198807865ISBN 10: 0198807864 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 12 October 2017 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents1: Introduction: Global Norms and Local Courts Part I 2: Norms in Translations 3: The Village Courts in Bangladesh 4: Between the State and the Shalish: the Logic of Non-Enforcement Part II 5: The Project 'Activating the Village Courts' 6: Translating Institutions 7: Translating Practices and Normative Orders 8: Conclusion: All that's Lost in Re-TranslationReviewsAuthor InformationTobias Berger is Assistant Professor in Politics and International Relations at the Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science at the Freie Universitat Berlin. Having studied at SOAS, Oxford, and Berlin, he obtained he PhD at the Freie Unviersitat in 2014. He was a visiting postdoctoral fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale and a Junior Visiting Fellow at the Institute for the Human Sciences in Vienna. His research interests are located at the intersection of International Relations, Legal Anthropology, and Political Theory. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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