Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis最新文献

{"title":"Creating power from failure: policing stock theft in colonial East Africa","authors":"Kaden Paulson-Smith","doi":"10.1080/27706869.2024.2357447","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/27706869.2024.2357447","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":131134,"journal":{"name":"Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis","volume":"91 21","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141337713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Islamic legal culture in Uzbekistan","authors":"Rustamjon Urinboyev","doi":"10.1080/27706869.2023.2269511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/27706869.2023.2269511","url":null,"abstract":"There was a widespread euphoria in the 1990s that introducing Western-style legal institutions and traditions would play a pivotal role in promoting the rule of law and democratization in post-Soviet societies. Like other post-Soviet states, Uzbekistan has become a ‘laboratory’ for testing various global (Western) good governance and rule of law initiatives. As a result of these interventions, Uzbekistan’s legal system represents a peculiar blend of Western and Soviet legal cultures: Western” from the “law in books” perspective (when we analyze its written laws and regulations) and “Soviet” from the “law in action” perspective (when observing how laws are applied and enacted by state institutions and officials). However, one dormant but highly salient legal order overlooked in the literature on Uzbekistan is the legacy of Islamic legal culture. With this in mind, this article explores the legacy and context of Islamic legal culture in Uzbekistan. I argue that the more the focus moves from state-centered understandings of law to ethnographic analyses of everyday life and micro-level social processes and structures, the more it becomes discernible that Islam serves as a legal order in Uzbekistan. These processes will be explored through the ethnographic study of mahallas (neighborhood communities) in Ferghana, Uzbekistan.","PeriodicalId":131134,"journal":{"name":"Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis","volume":"115 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135855078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Categorical confusions: gender and the colonial construction of the ‘Chinese Buddhist’ in Burma","authors":"Matthew Venker","doi":"10.1080/27706869.2023.2268377","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/27706869.2023.2268377","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractBritish law in colonial Burma separated the legal personhood of imperial subjects by religious status. However, colonial law failed to clarify boundaries around religious categories. This lack of clarity was amplified when the court was forced to consider how to apply Buddhist law between different Buddhist communities, like the Chinese and Burmese. Owing to differences in how marriage, divorce, succession, and other rights are handled in Chinese- versus Burmese legal traditions, recognition as either Chinese or Burmese carried significant weight. Through a historical anthropology of Chinese-Burmese Buddhist family law in colonial Burma, this article argues that the British colonial judiciary’s failure to appreciate connections between Burmese and Chinese Buddhists produced novel legal segregations of mixed communities. Further, this categorical splitting was generated along gendered lines, where judicial acceptance of men’s claims of Chinese separateness disenfranchised native, mixed, and migrant women who sought to foreground their connections to Burma.Keywords: Burmacolonial lawgenderBuddhismSino-Burmese Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 This paper uses the term ‘Burmese’ as a broad descriptor inclusive of both the majority Bamar and other Buddhist majority groups like the Shan and Mon (often termed ‘Talaing’ in colonial-era sources). While these are distinct groups, colonial courts treated them as a unified group of ‘Burmese Buddhists’ who enjoyed the same personal religious law. In all the cases I have reviewed, non-Bamar Burmese, litigants such as Shan or Mon (Talaing), follow the same patterns as Bamar litigants, and do not seek to supplant normative understandings of Burmese Buddhist law with legal entitlements specific to their cultural background.2 In her chapter on the ‘Kalai’ in Burma, Beyer’s work also shows how colonial legal structures can facilitate the production of novel groups in diasporic contexts, though these also require a great deal of work from people within the group that is coming into being, as well (Beyer Citation2023, 138–174).3 To be clear, Ne Win does signal his disdain for South Asians, whom he refers to as ‘kala,’ in this speech, but foregrounds the ta-yoke, Chinese, who he describes sending family members to Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, and America to smuggle goods out of Burma (Working People’s Daily 1982).4 In re. India, see Derrett 1961; Mallampalli Citation2011; Newbigin Citation2013; Sha (Sharafi, Citation2014). In re. Malaya and the Straits Settlements, see (Hussin, Citation2009); Yahaya, Citation2020.5 It is difficult to conclusively say that the courts viewed the Chinese as simply ‘Buddhists’ before the passage of the Burma Laws Act, though the limited sources that would speak to this question offer support to this proposition. These sources include the 1881 case of Hong Ku and Hock Kung vs Ma Thin, where a lower court judge unceremonio","PeriodicalId":131134,"journal":{"name":"Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136211074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Aligning religious law and state law: negotiating legal Muslim marriage in Pasuruan, East Java","authors":"Abdullah Syamsul Arifin, Muhammad Fauzinudin Faiz, Muhammad Lutfi Hakim","doi":"10.1080/27706869.2023.2255006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/27706869.2023.2255006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":131134,"journal":{"name":"Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114575250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ideas, narratives and experiences. A reflection on legal pluralism and the cause of justice in South Asia","authors":"Kalindi Kokal, Siddharth Peter de Souza","doi":"10.1080/27706869.2023.2239589","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/27706869.2023.2239589","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":131134,"journal":{"name":"Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122648559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Criminal Legalities and Minorities in the Global South: rights and Resistance in a Decolonial World, edited by George B. Radics and Pablo Ciocchini, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, xvi + 299 pp., $129.99 (hardcover), ISBN 978-3-031-17917-4, $99 (ebook), ISBN 978-3-031-17918-1","authors":"Kaden Paulson-Smith","doi":"10.1080/27706869.2023.2241198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/27706869.2023.2241198","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":131134,"journal":{"name":"Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122212434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Gender, property and politics in the Pacific. Who speaks for land?","authors":"R. Sieder","doi":"10.1080/27706869.2023.2240189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/27706869.2023.2240189","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":131134,"journal":{"name":"Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125716152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The divine in the secular","authors":"A. Malik","doi":"10.1080/27706869.2023.2233359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/27706869.2023.2233359","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":131134,"journal":{"name":"Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis","volume":"105 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124089997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reading legal ethnographies to re-map legal pluralism: a Pospisilian corrective to the prevailing dichotomous description of Afghanistan’s legal order","authors":"T. Ledvinka, J. Donovan","doi":"10.1080/27706869.2023.2213519","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/27706869.2023.2213519","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":131134,"journal":{"name":"Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis","volume":"19 3-4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132402629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From the editors","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/27706869.2023.2241268","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/27706869.2023.2241268","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":131134,"journal":{"name":"Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136375137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}