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Book SynopsisThe study of law and social movements provides an ideal lens for rethinking fundamental questions about the relationship between law and power. This Research Handbook takes up that challenge, framing a more global, dynamic, reflexive, and contextualised phase of social movement studies.
Featuring international and interdisciplinary contributions, chapters focus on democratic and authoritarian rule, social movement strategies, identities, social positions, and the relationship between narratives and power. This Research Handbook not only asks why movements succeed or fail, but more broadly how law and movements become conduits for entrenching or resisting power. Calling for novel approaches to law and social movements scholarship, it provides an expansive range of case studies on the topic, and grapples with questions of governmental regimes, power, and social change.
This interdisciplinary Research Handbook will be of great value to sociologists, political scientists, and other sociolegal scholars with an interest in global perspectives on social movements, democracy, and authoritarianism. It will also be a relevant read for policymakers, activists, and legal professionals.
Trade Review‘Steven Boutcher, Corey Schdaimah and Michael Yarbrough's new title Research Handbook on Law, Movements and Social Change
, goes beyond legal strategies and legal mobilization to expand our notions of when and how the law intersects with forms of democracy and authoritarianism, the constitution of law through practice, and the role of narrative in advancing/challenging forms of legal thinking. The book goes well outside the precincts of the global North to deal with law’s intersections with a variety of historical and social contexts.’ -- Sidney Tarrow, Cornell University, US
‘This Handbook revisits and reinvigorates the law and social movements literature. Chapters connect old debates on law’s mobilization in power disputes with new developments in social thought, political organization, and the geopolitics of knowledge. Amid the end of the liberal-democratic consensus and growing skepticism of law, it sets a new research agenda for socio legal scholars and offers valuable insights for practitioners and activists who will not give up on change.’ -- Fabio de Sa e Silva, University of Oklahoma, US
Table of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to the Research Handbook on Law, Movements and Social Change: On “legitimate political discourse” in the global twenty-first century 1 Michael W. Yarbrough, Corey Shdaimah, and Steven Boutcher PART I AUTHORITARIANISM, DEMOCRACY, AND THE SPACES BETWEEN 2 Rights mobilization: A view from Southeast Asia 20 Lynette J. Chua 3 Activist anthropology “on the live edge” in Colombia: A conversation among collaborators 38 Viviane Weitzner and Marlin Mancilla 4 Masks against panopticism? Enabling and contesting social change through anonymous engagement 56 Bruce Baer Arnold 5 Lawyers and social movements in Taiwan: two waves of mobilization and two generations of activist lawyers 71 Ching-Fang Hsu 6 Imperial structures and insurgent agents: Historical reflections on lawyers and social movements in South Asia 87 Cynthia Farid 7 Law and liberation: legal consciousness and Legal mobilization in post-communist Europe 102 Mihaela Şerban PART II BEYOND STRATEGY: ACTING IN CONTEXT 8 Spies, lies, trials, and trolls: Political lawyering against disinformation and state surveillance in Russia 119 Freek van der Vet 9 Performing artivism: Feminists, lawyers, and online legal mobilization in China 136 Di Wang and Sida Liu 10 Feminist activism: Rural South African vernacular law as an “accidental” site 153 Sindiso Mnisi Weeks 11 Fumbling towards legal mobilization in the community college classroom 168 Jason M. Leggett 12 The “defamation backlash”: Law and the feminist movement in Pakistan 182 Maryam S. Khan and Farieha Aziz 13 Mobilizing supranational courts in authoritarian and violent contexts: Kurdish lawyers before the European Court of Human Rights 197 Dilek Kurban 14 Activists as allies of international courts: Assessing the impact of legal mobilization at international courts 211 Filiz Kahraman PART III SPEAKING AS, SPEAKING FROM, SPEAKING FOR: IDENTITIES AND SOCIAL POSITIONS 15 Social movement struggles for decolonization and (re)constitution from below: Abahlali baseMjondolo’s strivings against pariahdom 227 Tshepo Madlingozi 16 Police as agents of change: How the police led the movement to criminalize HIV 243 Trevor Hoppe 17 The importance of intersectionality in evaluating the surveillance and protest politics of the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) 254 Shaneda L. Destine 18 No separate peace: On intersectional coalition solidarity and rights radicalism 268 Michael McCann 19 Legal mobilisation and identity formation in British trade unions: Bridging the spaces in-between? 286 Manoj Dias-Abey 20 “We Belong to the Streets”: Lawyers and social movements in post-revolution Egypt 300 Heba M. Khalil PART IV NARRATIVES AND LEGITIMACIES: STORIES OF POWER AND THE POWER OF STORIES 21 Realizing the right to be cold? Framing processes and outcomes associated with the Inuit petition on human rights and global warming 314 Sébastien Jodoin, Shannon Snow, and Arielle Corobow 22 From being Adivasi to becoming climate warriors: Transformation in the politics of recognition and legal mobilization in India’s coal-mining areas 329 Arpitha Kodiveri 23 Indigenous law and social mobilization: A history of the concept of Derecho Mayor in Cauca (Colombia) 345 Karla L. Escobar H. 24 Beyond the law to sociolegal intervention: The Boko Haram insurgency and the Nigerian Child 359 Azubike Onuora-Oguno and Mariam Abdulraheem-Mustapha 25 Knowing and not-knowing: I-poems and dialogue as a decarceral feminist methodology 372 Carly Guest and Rachel Seoighe 26 Contesting authority in the crisis of neoliberalism: The Chilean Spring and the mobilization of human rights frames 391 Javier Wilenmann and Mayra Feddersen PART V THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS A FINAL WORD … 27 Ten fragments on lawful storytelling 408 Danish Sheikh Index
