1st Edition
Legal Consciousness and the Rule of Law in Post-Conflict Societies Emergent Hybrid Legality in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
By Holly Dunn
Copyright 2023
186 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
186 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
186 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book considers how legal reforms and awareness raising associated with building the rule of law have engaged the popular legal consciousness, producing contradictions that have in turn shaped the nature of the resultant legality.
How are popular legal-justice beliefs and practices transformed when legal reforms encounter local contexts and cultures? For over a decade, scholars have... Read more
1. Problems with the Rule of Law and Research in the Eastern DRC 2. Legal Consciousness and the Construction of Emergent Hybrid Legality 3. Fraught Fieldwork: Embodied Experiences and Imagined Spaces 4. Top-Down Approaches to Shaping Legal Consciousness 5. Legal Consciousness in Context: Statutory Rape and Early Marriage 6. Popular Justice and Witchcraft: The Violent Side of Emergent Hybrid Legality 7. The Rule of Law Revisited: Lessons from Emergent Hybrid Legality in the DRC
Biography
Holly Dunn is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies, University of South Florida, USA.
