Law and Globalization from Below

This book is an unprecedented attempt to analyze the role of the law in the global movement for social justice. Case studies in the book are written by leading scholars from both the global South and the global North, and combine empirical research on the ground with innovative sociolegal theory to shed new light on a wide array of topics. Among the issues examined are the role of law and politics in the World Social Forum; the struggle of the anti-sweatshop movement for the protection of international labour rights; and the challenge to neoliberal globalization and liberal human rights raised by grassroots movements in India and indigenous peoples around the world. These and other cases, the editors argue, signal the emergence of a subaltern cosmopolitan law and politics that calls for new social and legal theories capable of capturing the potential and tensions of counter-hegemonic globalization.

ISBN 0521607353   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780521607353 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 600 Publisher Cambridge University Press   Published in Cambridge Imprint Cambridge University Press   Series editor Arup, Chris, Chanock, Martin, O'Malley, Pat Format Paperback   Series title Cambridge Studies in Law and Society Publication date 08 Sep 2005   Height (mm) 228 Library of Congress K370.L3852   Width (mm) 152 DEWEY 341   Spine width (mm) 23 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Professional / Scholarly Pages 412

1		Law, politics, and the subaltern in counter-hegemonic globalization by Boaventura de Sousa Santos and Cesar A. Rodriguez-Garavito		1
2		Beyond neoliberal governance : the world social forum as subaltern cosmopolitan politics and legality by Boaventura de Sousa Santos		29
3		Nike's law : the anti-sweatshop movement, transnational corporations, and the struggle over international labor rights in the Americas by Cesar A. Rodriguez-Garavito		64
4		Corporate social responsibility : a case of hegemony and counter-hegemony by Ronen Shamir		92
5		Campaigning for life : building a new transnational solidarity in the face of HIV/AIDS and TRIPS by Heinz Klug		118
6		Negotiating informality within formality : land and housing in the Texas colonias by Jane E. Larson		140
7		Local contact points at global divides : labor rights and immigrant rights as sites for cosmopolitan legality by Fran Ansley		158
8		Limits of law in counter-hegemonic globalization : the Indian Supreme Court and the Narmada Valley struggle by Balakrishnan Rajagopal		183
9		The movement of the landless (MST), juridical field, and legal change in Brazil by Peter P. Houtzager		218
10		Indigenous rights, transnational activism, and legal mobilization : the struggle of the U'wa people in Colombia by Cesar A. Rodriguez-Garavito and Luis Carlos Arenas		241
11		Defensive and oppositional counter-hegemonic uses of international law : from the international criminal court to the common heritage of humankind by Jose Manuel Pureza		267
12		Political and legal struggles over resources and democracy : experiences with gender budgeting in Tanzania by Mary Rusimbi and Marjorie Mbilinyi		283
13		Two democracies, two legalities : participatory budgeting in Porto Alegre, Brazil by Boaventura de Sousa Santos		310
14		Life, life world, and life chances : vulnerability and survival in Indian constitutional law by Shiv Visvanathan and Chandrika Parmar		339
15		Bottom-up environmental law and democracy in the risk society : Portuguese experiences in the European context by Joao Arriscado Nunes and Marisa Matias and Susana Costa		363

"Law and Globalization from Below is a collection of deeply insightful and challenging essays." Benedict Sheehy, The Law and Politics Book Review

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