In the past, anthropologists looking at legal phenomena tended to restrict the context of
analysis to the local situation. Now, however, national and international contexts are …

The intellectual odyssey of the concept of legal pluralism moves from the discovery of
indigenous forms of law among remote African villagers and New Guinea tribesmen to …

Governance is concerned with the practice of making collective decisions. Governance
theory, as such, has both an explanatory dimension and an advisory character. This twin …

I. Postmodern jurists love legal pluralism. They do not care about the law of the centralized
State with its universalist aspirations. It is the" asphalt law" of the Brasilianyâve/as, the …

In the fourth edition of Essential Criminology, authors Mark M. Lanier, Stuart Henry, and
Desire. M. Anastasia build upon this best-selling critical review of criminology, which has …

EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION—Stuart Henry and Dragan Milovanovic's work contributes to a
growing body of literature within criminology that undertakes a critical approach to the study …

Drawing on theories of legal pluralism, this book tests whether and to what extent claims of
the modern nation-state laws to exclusive dominance over other spheres are tenable, and …

During the unprecedented surge of 1990s prosperity, community economic development
(CED) emerged as the dominant approach to poverty alleviation, touted by politicians as a …

Contested States examines how hegemony is created and facilitated through law as well as
how people use legal arenas to resist oppression. The essays, written by anthropologists …

Street-level influence over the delivery of social policy is paradoxical; it promotes flexibility
and innovation, yet allows indifference and abuse. Even in highly bureaucratized human …