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

Sandra Brunnegger

ISBN 10: 080479796X / ISBN 13: 9780804797962

Published by Stanford University Press Jun 2016, 2016

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Neuware - Throughout 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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Sense of Justice : Legal Knowledge and Lived Experience in Latin America
• Publisher: Stanford University Press Jun 2016
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 080479796X
• ISBN 13: 9780804797962
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 231W x 152H x 25D millimeters 231 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 25 millimeters depth
• Weight: 567 grams

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Synopsis

Throughout 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.

A Sense of Justice ethnographically explores the complex dynamics of justice production across Latin America. The chapters examine (in)justice as it is lived and imagined today and what it means for those who claim and regulate its parameters, including the Brazilian police force, the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal in Colombia, and the Argentine Supreme Court. Inextricable as "justice" is from inequality, violence, crime, and corruption, it emerges through memory, in space, and where ideals meet practical limitations. Ultimately, the authors show how understanding the dynamic processes of constructing justice is essential to creating cooperative rather than oppressive forms of law.

About the Author

Sandra Brunnegger is Fellow and Lecturer at St. Edmund's College, Cambridge. Karen Ann Faulk is Research Professor at the Colegio de México.