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El pluralismo jurídico es un acercamiento alternativo para analizar los cambios en las prácticas del derecho y enfrentar los retos de la ley en un mundo globalizado. El autor hace una distincióndel pluralismo jurídico del pluralismo "constitucional" o "político". ; Legal pluralism is an alternative approach to analyze the changes in the practices of the law and to face the challenges of the law in a globalization world. The author makes a distinction of the legal pluralism of "constitutional" or "politician" pluralism. ; O pluralismo jurídico é um acercamento alternativo para analisar as mudanças nas práticas do direito e enfrentar os desafios da lei num mundo globalizado. O autor faz uma distinção do pluralismo jurídico, do pluralismo "constitucional" o "político".

Draws on the stories of Canadian adult telemarketing workers to examine low-wage telephone work. A look at the rapidly expanding telemarketing industry points out how corporate restructuring & technological advances have transformed marketing, consumer research, & customer service. It is contended that restructuring strategies are often facilitated by local governments in response to globalization. Interviews conducted 1996-1998 with roughly 60 telephone workers in 5 Canadian cities as part of a larger study focused on the circumstances that push individuals into telemarketing; the personal impact of such monotonous, emotionally draining, & highly monitored work; & the potential for moving on to better jobs. The stories reveal tension between immediate needs & long-term aspirations, suggesting that telemarketing is a "last resort." Although these jobs are easy to get, have flexible hours, & generally pay slightly better than other low-wage work, most of the interviewees found the work more stressful than anticipated. Other issues explored include gendered differences; skills learned through call-center work; & survival strategies. Excerpts from the interviews are included. 59 References. J. Lindroth

The failures of Western law in its encounter with indigenous legal orders have been well documented, but alternative modes of negotiating the encounter remain under-explored in legal scholarship.The present article addresses this lacuna. It proceeds from the premise that the journey towards a different conceptualization of law might be fruitfully re-routed through the affect-laden realm of embodied experience — the experience of watching the subversive anti-western film Dead Man. Section II explains and develops a Deleuzian approach to law and film which involves thinking about film as ''event.'' Section III considers Dead Man's relation to the western genre and its implications for how we think about law's founding on the frontier. Finally, the article explores the concept of ''becoming'' through a consideration of the relationship between the onscreen journey of the character Bill Blake and the radical worldview of his poetic namesake.

This paper argues that taking seriously the embodied and affective dimensions of thought is important in relation both to the critical and transformative possibilities of Law-and-Film scholarship. In it, the authors begin the work of revealing the ways that film works to produce what Raymond Williams called the 'structures of feeling' that help to cohere contemporary legal and political institutions. In its first section, it seeks to develop a more robust vocabulary for discussing how films work on their viewers. Building on the insights of William Connolly regarding the multilayered nature of thought, it discusses how the non-cognitive registers for thinking of technique, perception and affect are brought together in film. In the second section, the paper explores how these effects might be understood through a close reading of three short scenes drawn from the films The Piano (1993), Minority Report (2002) and Dead Man (1994). In the powerful contrast of 'affect' produced by each of these scenes (the latter two containing minimal narrative content), the authors make an argument for the significance of attending not only to the (fixed) representative or ideological dimension of film, but also to its movement, its flux and possibility as energy.

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Contends that Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri's Empire (2000) lacks an adequate accounting of the functioning of international law, focusing on the legal dimensions of the apparently emergent new form of imperialism & the World Bank. To understand Hardt & Negri's notion of Empire, three key characteristics of it, per the authors, are discussed: it is new, is decentered & deterritorialized, & emphasizes totality. In looking at the World Bank's two most recent publications of the World Development Report, difficulties related to the emphasis on deterritorialization & totality are elaborated on & how they depend on & reproduce a static & positivistic conception of law is demonstrated. In addition, an emergent international legal imperialism that Hardt & Negri do not address is exposed. At issue is the disempowering naturalization of the market & the incorrect assertion that nation &, thus, sovereignty are in decline. While World Bank practices appear at first blush to resonate with "empirial" modes of power, such practices actually depend on a kind of modern rather than postmodern sovereignty. Hardt & Negri's unidirectional & positivist conception of the relationship between law, states, & markets, wherein they eschew the potency of the myth of the rule of law, its link to nation, & in turn international law, hides the mechanisms by which the World Bank & other multilateral economic institutions construct the current empirial world order. J. Zendejas