Routledge handbook of law and society in Latin America
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Law and Society in Latin America: An Introduction -- Key moments in the study of law in action in Latin American law and society scholarship -- Contemporary Trends in Law and Society Scholarship in Latin America -- Organization of the Handbook -- Concluding Thoughts -- Notes -- References -- Part I Law, Politics, and Society -- 2 Latin America's Contribution to Constitutionalism -- Introduction -- Experimental Constitutionalism (1810-1850) -- The Foundational Period and the Consolidation of (Hyper-)Presidentialism (1851-1917) -- The Era of Social Constitutionalism (1917-1950) -- From Anti-Presidentialism to Human Rights (1980-2000) -- Multicultural Rights/Indigenous Rights. Constitutionalism in the Twenty-First Century -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 3 State and Law in Latin America: A Critical Assessment -- Introduction -- Institutional Sources of and Barriers to Legal Effectiveness -- Societal Mobilization for Greater Legal Responsiveness -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 4 Legal Pluralism and Fragmented Sovereignties: Legality and Illegality in Latin America -- Legal Pluralism and Subaltern Legalities in Latin America -- Legality, Illegality, and Plural Constellations of Governance -- Plural Forms of Governance: Fragmented and Overlapping Sovereignties -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 5 Disobeying the Law: Latin America's Culture of Noncompliance with Rules -- Perspectives on Noncompliance in Latin America -- A Socio-Legal Field of Study -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 6 Law and Violence in Latin America -- Introduction -- Civilization or Barbarism -- The Socialist Inversion of Terms -- The Cold War -- The New Constitutionalism and the New Barbarians.