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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Combining rich ethnographic studies from Latin America,
A Sense of Justice enriches our understanding of how different legal subjectivities are produced and 'justice' is understood in contexts of complex legal pluralism. It heralds important new debates in legal anthropology and the anthropology of human rights."—Rachel Sieder, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS), Mexico
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A Sense of Justice responds to the unique challenges of understanding justice as plural, decentered, and often in tension with formalized state-centered systems of law in Latin America. By privileging the everyday uses and consequences of justice in action and closely examining actors' own experiences of injustice and search for remedy, this superb book goes beyond its focus on Latin America, setting a wider agenda for an anthropology of justice."—Ronald Niezen, McGill University
"From rural and urban experiences in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, and Colombia,
A Sense of Justice explores the discursive uses and everyday practices of justice by courts, police, indigenous peoples, citizens, and victims. Aspiring to create an anthropology of justice, this book explores imaginative efforts to rescue justice from its institutionally inaccessible form into something that is meaningful for Latin Americans."—Leigh Payne, University of Oxford
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Making Sense of Justice
1. Transitional Justice, Memory, and the Emergence Legal Subjectivities in Colombia
2. Pursuing Justice in Jewish Buenos Aires
3. Justice, Rights, and Discretionary Space in Brazilian Policing
4. Imaginaries of Judicial Practice among Legal Experts in Argentina
5. The Craft of Justice-Making through the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal in Colombia
6. On Justice, Insecurity, and the Right to the City in Brazil's Oldest Metropolis
7. Water Justice, Mining, and the Fetish Form of Law in the Atacama Desert
Conclusion: Justice at the Limits of Law
