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Reckoning with Law in Excess
Mobilization, Confrontation, Refusal
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Index

abortion rights, 76
activist movements, 7–9
African Christian Democratic Party, 44
African National Congress (ANC), 24–25, 27, 37, 39, 41–42, 44
armed wing (MK), 28
Constitutional Committee, 33
Land Commission, 33
Radical Economic Transformation, 25, 41–42
Youth League (ANCYL), 42
AgriSA, 45
Ajpu, Nim, 244
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 273, 280
American Convention on Human Rights, 252
American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 233
American New Thought, 266
Amnesty International, 273, 276, 280
Anderson, Benedict, 138
Añez, Jeanine, 200
Anglicanism, 264
Angola, 28
Annan, Kofi, 1
anti-terrorism laws, 81, 84
APDHT activist, 204, 209
Arendt, Hannah, 114, 145–146, 156, 159–160, 159
Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF), 260
Aróstegui, Juan Carlos (Negro), 200, 202
Asociación Bufete Jurídico Popularde Rabinal, 244, 245
Assam, 82
Association of Mayan Lawyers and Notaries of Guatemala, 244–251, 254
Association of Popular Legal Chambers of Rabinal, 244
asylum, 156–157
asylum seekers, 156
Aung San Suu Kyi, 59, 62–63
authoritarian legalism, 11, 78–79, 83
Awas Tigni vs Nicaragua, 252
Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College, 259
Baer, Susanne, 89
Baier, Annette, 135
Bardhana, 227
Basic Income Grant, 51
Basic Law (Germany), 164, 168–169, 172
Belgrade, 217
Benin, 264
Berlin, 11, 164, 171, 174–175, 178–179, 180
Berlin, Isaiah, 133, 140
Berlin, rent-freeze law, 181
Bhuta, Nehal, 216
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 112
bio-constitutionalism, 7, 285
Bishop, Michael, 40
BJP, 83
black economic empowerment (BEE), 29, 36
Black Lives Matter (BLM), 8–9
Blitzer, Jonathan, 240
Boko Haram, 260–261, 268
Bolivia, 186, 187, 189, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 199–200, 203–204, 206–209
bill of rights, 191
constitution, 15, 186–187, 192–195, 197–200, 204, 206–209
hydrocarbon extraction, 186, 189
police, 204
Bolivians, 194–195, 208
Bolivian state, 15
Bonn, 175
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 217–218
Brazil, 103, 110, 128
BringBackOurGirls campaign, 261
Brown, Wendy, 91, 113
Buck-Morss, Susan, 166
Burma, LGBT movement, 12, 17, 18, 56, 59, 61
Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS), 33
CGN-Pronico, 238–239, 240
Chaco region, 194, 196
China, 6, 121, 127–128, 283
Chinique, 249–250, 252–254
Chiquiacá Canton, 186–187, 197–198, 201, 203–205, 209
Christ Army Church, 264
Christian Democrats (CDU) (Germany), 170, 180
Christianity, 263–264, 265, 269, 270, 272
Church Missionary Society (CMS), 264
CICIG, 240
Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) (India), 81–82
Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples Mechanisms (CSIPM), 106, 106–112
Civil Society Forum, 110
climate change, 6, 137, 277
Clinton, Hilary Rodham, 122
Coca, Nelly, 187, 205
Cold War, 121, 215–217
collective ownership, 164, 167, 169, 182
collective rights, 234
Colombia, 283
Commission on Sustainable Development, 103–104
Committee on World Food Security (CFS), 99, 105, 107, 110
Communal Land Rights Act (South Africa), 34
Communal Land Tenure Act (South Africa), 36
Community Action for Popular Participation (CAPP), 273
constitutionalism, 1, 26, 28, 78–79, 89–90, 92
transformative, 27, 29–31, 34–38, 47–51, 189, 192
Constitutional Review Committee (ANC), 43
contagion, 57, 65–74, see also governing through contagion
Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA), 27
Copones, 247–254
Cornell, Drucilla, 30, 40
corruption, 25, 36, 40–41, 235–236, 238, 240
Corten, Olivier, 227
COVID-19 (Temporary Measures) Act (CTMA), 68
COVID-19 pandemic, 37, 43, 65, 66, 68–74
COVID-19 vaccination, 69
Crisis in Darfur project, 276
CSIPM, 106, see Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples Mechanisms
Dar al-Harb, 267
Davies, Jonathan, 113
decolonization, 48, 67, 128
Democratic Alliance, 44
Deustsche Wohnen & Co. enteignen (DWE), 164
Didiza, Thoko, 33
Die Linke (Germany), 177, 180
Di Giminiani, 234, 241–242, 244, 247
Digital Globe, 276
Diouf, Jacques, 104
dual governance, 91
DWE initiative, 164, 167–172, 178–182
dysconnectedness, 57, 71–72
Dyzenhaus, David, 25, 29
Early Warning Early Response (EWER), 259, 274
Earth Resource Technology Satellite (ERTS), 275
Earth Summit (1992), 103
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), 42
El Estor, 238–239, 240
EULEX, 212, 219, 220–221, 229
European Convention on Human Rights, 219, 227
European Court of Human Rights, 85–86, 92, 219, 228
European Emergency Trust Fund for Africa (EUTF), 85
European Union, 11, 85, 129, 212
Extinction Rebellion, 7–8
extractive industries, 16, 192, 236, 239
extractivism, 15, 202, 208, 243
extrajudicial killing, 259, 261
Eyes on Nigeria, 273–281
finca Patio de Bolas Copón, 248, 249–250, 253–254
Fodio, Uthman Dan, 267
food activism, 18, 285
Food and Agriculture Organization, 105
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), 103, 104–105
food chain-workers, 97, 98, 100, 102, 110
food sovereignty, 12–13, 97–107, 100, 112–115
food sovereignty activism, 98–102, 103, 105, 107, 112, 115
forced labor regime, 249, 250, 254
forced migration, 145, 158, 160, 261
forgiveness, 146–147, 149–150
Foucault, Michel, 19, 154, 167, 262
Fraser, Nancy, 101, 122, 189
Freedom Charter (1955) (South Africa), 28
Freedom Front Plus, 44
French Revolution, 131
Fulani, 277–278
Gaddafi, Muammar, 92
geospatial technologies, 258, 273–274, 277, 280–282
German Democratic Republic (GDR), 172, 174
Germany
constitution, 164–165, 167–168, 170, 172, 176
Nazi regime, 128, 138, 164, 169 see also Berlin.
globalization, 84, 126
global positioning system (GPS), 273
Global Redesign Initiative, 107, 112
Google Earth, 275
governing through contagion (GTC), 12, 56, 66, 68–70, 71, 73–74
Great Britain, 83, 264, 267, 283
Great Council, 251
Great Council of Ancestral Authorities, 251
Greenberg, Jessica, 85, 228
Green Party (Germany), 177, 180
Growth, Employment and Redistribution strategy (GEAR), 36
Grundgesetz, 168
GTC, 12, see governing through contagion.
Guacamaya Roja, 238
Guaraní People, 195
Guatemala, 15–17, 236–237, 239, 240, 243–244, 246, 248, 254
constitution, 247, 252
Haitian Revolution, 191
Hall, Ruth, 44
Hanekom, Derek, 33
hashtag activism, 7, 285
Hausa beliefs, 270, 278
High-Level Panel of Experts (HLPE), 105
High-Level Panel on the Assessment of Key Legislation and the Acceleration of Fundamental Change (HLP), 35
Hindu nationalism, 80, 82–83
Hirschl, Ran, 1–2, 4, 30–31, 124, 189, 286
Hirsi Jamaa vs. Italy, 85
homicide, 144, 146
Homo economicus, 91
housing, 11, 163–165, 167, 171–177, 181–182, 212
Howard-Hassmann, Rhoda, 122, 131, 137–139
humanitarianism, 13, 17, 144, 145–146, 158, 160–161
human rights, 57–58, 110, 232, 235
age of, 1, 9, 122, 233
bureaucratization, 228–229
collective practice of, 59–60
detechment from law, 123, 134
dignity{,} social belonging{,} responsibility as core meanings, 60
dignity of identity and, 60
extractive frontiers, 187
food sovereignty activism and, 98–99, 113
gender violence and, 114
humanitarianism and, 13, 161
indigenous peoples as subjects, 232, 238, 241, 253
Iranian practices, 152
judicialization, 235
law-washing and, 214
mercy and, 146, 152
neoliberal diminishment of, 91
neoliberalism and, 98, 189
populism as response to, 190
postcolonial critiques, 122, 138, 190, 191, 207
property rights as, 223
purpose of, 135
as redress to inequality, 189
reinvention of, 123, 131–134, 136–137, 139–140
remote sensing of violations, 276–277, 280, 284
respect for, 212
role of leftwing movements in shift toward, 130
as rooted in liberalism, 114
safeguarding, 217–218
sovereignty and, 97
technocratic adherence to, 228
turn away from, 130
unenforcability of claims, 158
as utopian project, 166
as vocabulary of resistance, 191
as way of life, 12, 56–57, 59, 61, 65
failure of, 62, 74
Human Rights Council, 128, 238
human rights defenders, 205, 209, 235
Human Rights Watch, 276
Hungary, 82, 129
IG Metall, 169
India, 77–78, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 90, 92, 128
authoritarian legality, 80–84
constitution, 77
legislation
Prevention of Terrorist Activities Act, 81
Indian constitution, 80
Indigeneity, 232
indigenous peoples, 96, 233, 234, 236–238, 240–241, 243–248, 251–253
as collective subjects of human rights, 232–233
food sovereignty and, 97, 98
human rights mobilization, 16
Indigenous Peoples Chambers, 244
indigenous rights, 17, 167, 194, 233, 236–237, 254
indigenous rights movement, 237
inequality, 6, 37, 40, 121–122, 137
Infectious Diseases Act (IDA), 67–68
Inkatha Freedom Party, 44
Interamerican Commission of Human Rights, 253–254
Interamerican Court of Human Rights, 202, 233, 252, 260
interconnectedness, 71
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 252
International Court of Human Rights, 202
International Criminal Court (ICC), 14, 276
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), 276
international governance, 84, 87
International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty, 103–106, 109
International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty (IPC), 103
Iran, 13, 17, 126, 144–147, 149, 150–152
victim-centered criminal justice, 146–150
Irina (EULEX judge), 220–221, 229
Islam, 83, 263, 267, 269, 270, 271–272
Islamic law, 13, 268
Ixcán, 244, 248, 248
Jameson, Fredric, 166
Jasanoff, Sheila, 262
Jashari, Hilmi, 221
Jos, 280–281
judicial corruption, 235
judicialization superstructure, 235
juridification, 124–127, 214, 215–216, 233, 239, 241
juristocracy, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 27, 123–130, 192–195, 213–216
backlashes against, 11, 38
expanded senses, 4, 9
Hirschl’s sense, 20, 26, 37, 49
intensified periods, 17
juristocratic reckoning and, 1, 11, 61
post-cold war, 131, 140
religious, 13
restrictive forms, 11
social duty and, 152–155
South Africa, 31, 35, 41
against the state, 14–15, 19
state resistance to, 10
temporality, 16
as transformative process, 2
transition into, 2–4
waning, 92
juristocratic reckoning, 3, 4, 5–9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 19, 20, 56–57, 61–62, 73–75
commonalities across cases, 4
dialectics of, 2–4, 16, 18, 19–20, 48, 51
first phase, 2
human rights practice as, 64
iconic indexicality, 4
juristocracy and, 1
with law in excess, 31
phases, 57
first, 2, 61, 64, 179
second, 3, 56, 61, 64–65
as strategy of resistance, 15
taxonomies of, 9–16
temporality of, 17
Just Stop Oil, 7
Keynesian–Westphalian frame, 101
Kirsch, Stuart, 233
Klare, Karl, 29
Klaus Schwab, 112
Kosovo, 14, 212–221, 223, 224–225
Albanian population, 212, 217, 223, 225
constitution, 218
Kosovo Liberation Army, 225
Kosovo Property Agency (KPA), 14, 212, 212–214, 219, 222–228
KPA, 14, see Kosovo Property Agency.
Krygier, Martin, 5
labor protests, 39
labor unions, 169, 177
Lancaster House Agreement, 32
land ontologies, 19, 234, 241–242, 244
land redistribution, 24, 32–33, 36, 44, 48, 50–51
land reform, 29, 31, 32–34, 43–48, 50–51
Land Resource Centre, 33–34
Landsat 1, 275
Latin America, 15, 19, 192–193, 208, 235–236, 238
La Vía Campesina (LVC), 96–97, 99, 101–103, 105, 110
law-washing, 213–215, 220, 221, 224, 229
League of Nations, 65
Legal Resources Centre (LRC), 33
Legislative Council (LegCo), 67
LGBT, 12, 17, 18, 57–64, 74
liberal constitutionalism, 4, 25, 30, 37
Libya, 85–86, 92, 276
Lindhart, Martin, 264
looping effects, 233
López, Wendy, 245
López Obrador, 260
Los Copones, 251
LRC, 33, see Land Resource Centre
Madonsela, Thuli, 40
Malema, Julius, 42
Malinowski, Bronislaw, 152
Marcuse, Herbert, 137, 139
Marikana massacre, 26, 39
Marshall, Ruth, 265
Marx, Karl, 120, 167, 274
Mayan women lawyers, 245
Mazower, Mark, 146, 158
Mbeki, Thabo, 33–34
McKeon, Nora, 104
Meierhenrich, Jens, 28, 128
Mercado, Juanita, 204
mercy, 13, 144–146, 148–152, 154, 155–156, 159–161
Merry, Sally, 114
MeToo movement, 8–9
Mexican government, 259
Mexico, 97, 99, 259–261, 283
Mietpreisbremse, 171
Milošević, Slobodan, 217
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, 281
Modi, Narendra, 81
Modiri, Joel, 37
Monterroso, Vásquez, 248, 248
Morales, Evo, 192–193, 199–200
Morales, Jimmy, 240
moralization, 66, 69
Morgenthau, Hans, 216
Motlanthe, Kgalema, 35
Movement for Our Disappeared in Mexico, 260
Moyn, Samuel, 132, 145, 158, 166
Mugler, Johanna, 76
Muhammad (Prophet of Islam), 270
multistakeholder approach, 103, 108
multistakeholder governance, 96–97, 112, 115
multistakeholderism, 97–106, 108–110, 112–113
murder, 151, 153–154, 238, 250
Muslims, 81–84, 267–268, 270, 281
Myanmar, 12, 17, 18, 57–58, 61–64
National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) (South Africa), 39
NATO, 212, see North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Nay Pyi Taw, 62
Negro, 200, see Arostegui.
neoliberalism, 98, 100, 188, 189, 192, 194
nepotism, 235
new constitutionalism, 1, 189
Ngcukaitobi, Tembeka, 45–48
NGOs, 33, see nongovernmental organizations.
Ngwane, Trevor, 37, 39, 40
Nichols, Robert, 242–243
Niger Delta, 280, 281
Nigeria, 14, 259–270, 272, 273, 277, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282, 283, 286
challenges to state violence monopoly, 272–277
independence (1960), 267
insecurity of life, 262
Islamic fundamentalism, 267–269
Boko Haram, 260–261
Pentecostalism, 263–267
police violence, 260–262, 283–284
postcolonial economic policy, 283
postcolonial effects, 268
religiosity, 263, 282
village monitoring project, 273, 277–280
Yoruba cosmologies, 269–272
Nimatuj, Velásquez, 247
nongovernmental organizations (NGO), 33–34, 102–106, 108, 199–200, 285–286
normalization, 12, 66–69, 145, 220
normalization-moralization, 57, 69–71
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 212, 217
notification fiasco, 226
Nyèléni Conference, 100
Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT), 276
Orbán, Viktor, 129
organic global constitutionalism, 89, 90
Osnos, Evan, 121
Oxfam, 106
Palestine, 157, 157
pandemic, 37, 43, 66, 68, 71–73, 75
Patel, Raj, 113
Pentecostalism, 264–267, 270
Pérez Molina, Otto, 240
Permanent Assembly of Human Rights (ADPH) (Bolivia), 209
PETROBRAS, 186, 196
Piketty, Thomas, 121
plunder, 133
Poland, 83
police, 39, 58–59, 174, 204, 260–261, 283–284
Porras, Gloria, 240
Port Harcourt, 280
Potemkin, Grigory, 40
Presidential Advisory Panel on Land Reform and Agriculture (PAPLRA), 44
primitive law, 152–153
private property, 28, 164, 169–170, 179, 244, 254
Private Sector Mechanism (PSM), 106, 109–110
prosperity gospel, 265–266
Q’eqchi, 238–239, 244, 247–251, 254
Quarantine and Prevention of Disease Act (QPDA), 67
Quarantine and Prevention of Disease Ordinance (QPDO), 67
Quarantine Ordinance (Singapore), 67
Quebrada Las Vacas, 204–205
Qur’an, 149–150, 271
racial justice movements, 2, 8, 190, 208
Ramaphosa, Cyril, 25, 35, 41–42, 44
Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP), 36
Redfield, Robert, 152–155, 160
refugees, 82, 138, 145, 155–158, 157, 160–161, see also asylum seekers
rent hike limits, 171
representative claims, 98–99, 114–115
Responsible Governance of Tenure, 108
Restitution of Land Rights Act, 35
Restitution of Land Rights Amendment Act (2014), 35
Roe vs. Wade, 76, 158
Romero, Francisco, 202
Rorty, Richard, 135
Roux, Theunis, 29–30, 31, 37, 41–42, 45
Rupp, Jan, 262
Russia, 6, 110, 123, 128
San Francisco, 173
Sangh Parivar, 83
Sapper, Karl, 249
SARS, 66, see Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.
Sassen, Saskia, 100
satellite imaging, 273–276, 279–281, 281
Saward, Michael, 98, 114
Sawhoyamaxa vs. Paraguay, 252
Schutzhaft, 159
science and technology studies (STS), 66
Search for Common Ground (SFCG), 273
Senior Research, 232
Serbia, 212, 217, 227
SERNAP, 196
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), 66–68, 70–71
Sieder, 16, 19, 124, 190, 239, 243
Singapore, 12, 56, 57, 65–73
Chinese coolies, 71, 72
singularization, 87–89
Sisulu, Lindiwe, 24–25, 51
social and political movements, 1, 3, 7, 129–131, 135, 136
social constructivism, 132
Social Democrats (Germany), 169, 177, 180
social justice, 36, 37, 76–79, 98–99, 101, 114–115
social media, 6, 63, 204, 274, 276
Solway Investment Group, 238
Sørensen, Eva, 114
South Africa, 4, 10–11, 24–32, 35–43, 47–51
anti-constitutional populism, 27
apartheid regime, 28
civil unrest
Zuma unrest, 41
Constitution, 24, 25–28, 40–41, 43, 45, 46–48
constitutionalism, 27, 30–31, 37
Constitutional Review Committee (CRC), 43
corruption, 25, 40–41
Department of Land Affairs, 33
inequality, 37
land reform, 42, 44
debate over, 31–32, 50
expropriation without compensation, 27, 42–48, 50–51
legal culture, 28–29
legislation
Communal Land Rights Act (2004), 34
Communal Land Tenure Bill (BX-2017), 35
Restitution of Land Rights Act (1994), 35
liberal democracy, 39
post-apartheid transition, 4, 24, 26
progressive jurisprudence, 29
trade unions, 39
South African Communist Party (SACP), 39
sovereignty, 84, 100, 113, 205, 218, 245
food sovereignty and, 113
Soviet Union, 28
stakeholder capitalism, 13, 97, 107, 112
Status of Refugees, 156–157
Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS), 47
Stoler, Ann, 19
Supreme Court (US), 59, 76, 220, 226, 228, 240
Suresh, Mayur, 82
Surplus People Project, 33
Tarija city, 186, 196, 200, 205
Tarija Department, 196, 200, 205, 209
Tariquía National Reserve, 186–187, 189, 195–197, 199–203, 205, 208–209
Tatmadaw, 62
Teitel, Ruti, 220
tenure reform, 33, 34, 45
think tanks, 274
Thompson, E. P., 136, 163, 191, 274
Tlaxcala Declaration, 99, 99
tolerance, 124, 134, 137, 140
tort law, 154
trade unions, 39
transformational triage, 11, 18, 49–51
transformative constitutionalism, 10, see constitutionalism, transformative.
Transvaal Rural Action Committee (TRAC), 33
Trump, Donald, 129
Tun Tun, 58, 62
Ukraine, 123, 128, 276
Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), 28
UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS), 99
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 247, 252
UN Food Systems Summit, 96, 99, 111–112
United Nations Administration Mission in Kosovo, 216
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 157
United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), 276
United Nations International Commission, 240
United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), 157, 157
United States, 6, 8, 76, 106, 110, 121
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), 122, 131, 134, 156, 158
universal human rights, 133, 138
UNMIK, 217–218, 220–221
user generated content (UGC), 273–277
vaccination, 65, 68–70, 71–72
COVID-19, 69
smallpox, 68–69, 71–72, 73
vaccination differentiation, 69
Valladolid debate, 191
Velásquez, Ivan, 240
Velásquez Nimatuj, Irma Alicia, 247
vigilante violence, 259
Village Monitoring Project, 273
Weeks, Sindiso Mnisi, 50
Westphalian international order, 100–101, 128, 245
women’s rights, 9, 122
Woolman, Stuart, 40
World Conference on Women, 122
World Economic Forum (WEF), 96–97, 107, 111–112
World Health Organization, 65
World Social Forum, 103
World Trade Organization (WTO), 102
World War II, 156, 159, 172, 286
Xingwana, Lulama, 31
Yoruba, 269, 270, 272
YPFB, 186, 196
Yugoslavia, 128, 218
Yusuf, Mohammad, 260
Zamfara State, 273, 278
Zimbabwe, 26, 32
constitution, 32
Zondo Commission, 41
Zondo. Raymond, 25, 41
Zuma, Jacob, 25, 27, 35, 40–42

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