Local Space, Global Life

The Everyday Operation of International Law and Development

AvLuis Eslava

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

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Local Space, Global Life engages with the expansive, ground-level and intertwined operations of international law and the development project by discussing the current international focus on local jurisdictions. Since the mid-1980s, and through the discourse of decentralization, municipalities and cities in emerging nations have become the preferred spaces in which to promote global ideals of human, economic and environmental development. Through an ethnographic study of Bogotá's recent development experience and the city's changing relation to its illegal neighbourhoods, Luis Eslava interrogates this rationale and exposes the contradictions involved in the international turn to the local. Attentive to historical and current transformations, norms and praxis, and both ideology and materiality, he provides an innovative reading of the nature of international law and the development project, and reveals their impact on local spaces and lives at the urban periphery of today's world order.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-10-06
Mått:152 x 225 x 18 mm
Vikt:540 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:374
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781107465091

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Luis Eslava is a lecturer in international law at Kent Law School, a senior fellow at Melbourne Law School, and an international professor at Universidad Externado de Colombia. He teaches and writes in the areas of international law, international legal theory and history, anthropology of international law, public law, law and development, and urban law and politics.

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'Every now and then, books come along which make us look afresh at things we thought we knew. Local Space, Global Life is one of those books. Eslava's meticulous analysis of the way international law shapes daily life in the Global South is given life by a resistant sensibility and fluency across disciplines. Considered through his lens, international law will never look the same again.' Sundhya Pahuja, University of Melbourne, and author of Decolonising International Law: Development, Economic Growth and the Politics of Universality

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction; 2. Building the global from the local; 3. Development and the nation-state; 4. Development changes places; 5. The making of a new Bogotá; 6. The local self of the international; 7. Conclusions.