Editor(s): Brunnegger, Sandra; Faulk, Karen. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; JHBT; JP; LAQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 354. . 2016. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: A Sense of Justice: Legal Knowledge and Lived Experience in Latin America
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication Date: 2016
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0804799075
ISBN 13: 9780804799072
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New

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Throughout Latin America, the idea of "justice" serves as the ultimate goal and rationale for a wide variety of actions and causes. In the Chilean Atacama Desert, residents have undertaken a prolonged struggle for their right to groundwater. Family members of bombing victims in Buenos Aires demand that the state provide justice for the attack. In Colombia, some victims of political violence have turned to the courts for resolution, while others reject the state's ability to fairly adjudicate their grievances and have constructed a non-state tribunal. In each of these examples, the protagonists seek one main thing: justice. A Sense of Justice ethnographically explores the complex dynamics of justice production across Latin America. The chapters examine (in)justice as it is lived and imagined today and what it means for those who claim and regulate its parameters, including the Brazilian police force, the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal in Colombia, and the Argentine Supreme Court. Inextricable as "justice" is from inequality, violence, crime, and corruption, it emerges through memory, in space, and where ideals meet practical limitations. Ultimately, the authors show how understanding the dynamic processes of constructing justice is essential to creating cooperative rather than oppressive forms of law.

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Sandra Brunnegger is Fellow and Lecturer at St. Edmund's College, Cambridge. Karen Ann Faulk is Research Professor at the Colegio de M�xico.

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