Hybridity: Law, Culture and Development (Law, Development and Globalization)

This book explores recent developments in the concept of hybridity through a multi-disciplinary perspective, bringing ideas about legal plurality together with the fields of peace, development and cultural studies. Analysing the concepts of hybridity and hybridization, their history, their application in law and legal studies, and their implications for thinking and rethinking legal plurality, the book shows how the concept of hybridity can contribute to an understanding of the processes that occur when different normative or legal orders or frameworks confront each other.

Nicolas Lemay-Hébert is based in the International Development Department, University of Birmingham, UK, and Rosa Freedman in the Law Department, at the University of Reading, UK.