Description
Reckoning with Law in Excess investigates the dynamic interplay between legal systems and social movements that challenge, confront, and refuse state authority. Through diverse case studies and theoretical frameworks, the authors analyze how marginalized groups mobilize legal resources while simultaneously rejecting legal constraints.
The volume addresses critical questions about the limits of law, the ethics of refusal, and the possibilities for transformation through confrontational practices. It examines contexts where law becomes both a tool for justice and an instrument of control, exploring how activists navigate these tensions. The book contributes to anthropological and sociolegal scholarship by providing nuanced accounts of resistance, mobilization strategies, and alternative approaches to accountability beyond formal legal channels.
Goodale and Zenker bring together insights from multiple disciplines to understand how law operates in excess of its formal institutions, and how social actors create meaning and justice through practices that exceed or challenge conventional legal frameworks.
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