Reckoning with Law in Excess
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication date:
- September 2025
- September 2025
- ISBN:
- 9781009499552
- 9781009499545
- 9781009499590
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This content is Open Access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence CC-BY-NC 4.0.
https://creativecommons.org/creativelicenses - Dimensions:
- (229 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.627kg, 318 Pages
- Dimensions:
- (229 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.47kg, 318 Pages
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Reckoning with Law in Excess offers a ground-breaking approach to understanding the relationship between law and social and political transformation in a changing and uncertain world. The book's authors examine a wide range of case studies in which social movements pursue justice and social change within, against, and beyond the law. The interdisciplinary research at the heart of the volume reveals patterns in the ways in which law and legality are invested with heightened importance during certain historical moments, a process of over-loading that most often gives way to disenchantment with the ultimate limits of law. In reflecting critically and synthetically on these complicated dialectics of reckoning with law, the book shines a light on one of the most important, and consequential, dynamics in an era of climate crisis, rising populism across the political spectrum, and social conflict. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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Reckoning with Law in Excess
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Reckoning with Law in Excess - Title page
pp iii-iii - Mobilization, Confrontation, Refusal
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Contents
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Notes on Contributors
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Acknowledgments
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Note on the Text
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Introduction
pp 1-23 - Social and Political Transformation within, against, and beyond the Law
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2 - Beyond Here Lies Somethin’
pp 56-75 - Juristocratic Reckonings in Two Narratives of Legalities
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3 - After Constitutionalism
pp 76-95 - Current Pathways of Legal Domination
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4 - Re-presenting Rights
pp 96-119 - Food Sovereignty and the Struggle for Postliberal Democratic Governance
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5 - Translocal Dilemmas
pp 120-143 - Social Mobilization and Justice-Seeking beyond the Boundaries of Law
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6 - The Enduring Logic of Mercy
pp 144-162 - Humanitarianism and the Eclipse of Human Rights
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8 - Plurinational Juristocracy and Rights from Below at Bolivia’s Gas Frontier
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9 - Law-Washing the Transitional State
pp 212-231 - The Practice of Property Restitution in Postwar Kosovo
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