Suchergebnisse

In einer Fallstudie aus Botswana in einem Themenschwerpunkt über Frauen, Sprache und Recht analysiert die Autorin genderspezifische Ausprägungen eines Erbschaftsstreits, in dem Männer grundsätzlich bessere Chancen des Zugangs zu Ressourcen haben als Frauen. Frauen müssten immer noch um ihren Status und die Durchsetzung gleicher Rechtsansprüche kämpfen. (DÜI-Kör)

1. Space and legal pluralism : an introduction / Franz von Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von Benda-Beckmann and Anne Griffiths -- 2. Peasant community and territorial strategies in the Andean highlands of Peru / Monique Nuijten and David Lorenzo Rodriguez -- 3. Migrants, settlers and refugees : law and the contestation of 'citizenship' in Bhutan / Richard W. Whitecross -- 4. The spatial and temporal role of law in natural resource management : the impact of state regulation of fishing spaces / Melanie G. Wiber -- 5. The sultan's map : arguing one's land in Pasir / Laurens Bakker -- 6. Contested spaces of authority in Indonesia / Franz von Benda-Beckmann and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann -- 7. The new global legal order as local phenomenon : the Special Court for Sierra Leone / Gerhard Anders -- 8. The myth of the transparent table : reconstructing space and legal interventions in Scottish children's hearings / Anne Griffiths and Randy F. Kandel -- 9. The regulation of commodity exchange in Southern Africa during the eighth to fifteenth centuries CE / Edwin N. Wilmsen -- 10. Can there be maps of law? / Maarten Bavinck and Gordon R. Woodman.

How is law mobilized and who has the power and authority to construct its meaning? This important volume examines this question as well as how law is constituted and reconfigured through social processes that frame both its continuity and transformation over time. The volume highlights how power is deployed under conditions of legal pluralism, exploring its effects on livelihoods and on social institutions, including the state. Such an approach not only demonstrates how the state, through its various development programs and organizational structures, attempts to control territory and people, but also relates the mechanisms of state control to other legal modes of control and regulation at both local and supranational levels

The collection of papers in this volume is an introduction of legal problems facing women in the Southern African region. The position of women in Southern Africa is closely linked with the whole socio-economic fabric of the society. This book is a contribution to a process of change