Legal Subjectivity, Popular / Community Justice and Human Rights in Latin America

Friday, 22 January 2010 to Saturday, 23 January 2010
Location: St Edmund's College, Mount Pleasant, Cambridge

Convenor

Sandra Brunnegger (University of Cambridge)

Keynote speakers

Julio Faundez (University of Warwick)
Daniel Goldstein (Rutgers University, USA)
Mark Goodale (George Mason University, USA)
Rachel Sieder (Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS), Mexico)

Conference summary

This conference aims to promote interdisciplinary debate between scholars from Law, Anthropology, Political Science and related fields in order to probe new constellations of popular/community justice, human rights and local forms of legal subjectivity in Latin America. In particular, the conference seeks to generate critical analysis by investigating discourses on rights and justice as these are variously understood, adopted, resisted and (re)constructed through processes of communal justice (e.g. community tribunals, vigilantism) and by various agencies and legal subjects in the context of different social, political, and cultural settings (e.g. community leaders, NGOs, institutions).

Further information

Conference participants can find information about accommodation in Cambridge at the following URLs:
http://www.visitcambridge.org/index.php
http://www.cambridgerooms.co.uk/
NB. CRASSH is not able to help with the booking of accommodation.

Conference sponsors

The conference convenor would like to gratefully acknowledge the support of the following sponsors:

Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH)
7th European Community Framework Programme N^o 237549
Social and Legal Studies
St Edmund's College, University of Cambridge

Society for Latin American Studies