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

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Alonso Barros van Hövell tot Westerflier (Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile)
The Practical Declaration: Ius et Praxis amongst Atacama Desert communities

Regina Bateson (Yale University)
The political lynching

Joanna Cichecka (Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland)
The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo – demands for memory, justice and truth: dealing with human rights violations

Daniel Goldstein (Rutgers University, USA)
Community justice and problems of insecurity in Evo's Bolivia

Mark Goodale (George Mason University, USA)
Human Rights and the Moral Imagination in Contemporary Latin America

Karen Faulk (University of Michigan / Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
‘Justice, Justice, you will seek’:  Security and Rights in Buenos Aires

Julio Faundez (University of Warwick, UK)
Engaging with non-state justice systems in Latin America: Rule of Law and Access to Justice

Narmala Halstead (University of East London, UK)
Grounding the extra-territorial local: violence, agency and new boundaries

Ella McPherson (University of Cambridge)
Human Rights discourse versus post-transition authoritarian culture: The struggle to frame the 2006 Atenco conflict in Mexico

Nicholas D. Natividad (Arizona State University, USA)
Erasing the Line in the Land: Transborder Communal Justice and the Human Rights of Migrants

Manuela Picq (Amherst College, USA)
Between the dock and a hard place: exploring the pitfalls of judicial pluralism for indigenous women in Ecuador

Daniel Reichman (University of Rochester, USA)
Truth and Traceability: Transparent Commodities and New Legal Subjectivities in Honduras

Rachel Sieder (Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS), Mexico)
Indigenous Law, Violence and the "Multiculturalization" of Justice in Guatemala

Noa Vaisman (University of Chicago, USA)
Legal Subjectivities and Genetic Truths: The Complex Struggle for Human Rights in Post-dictatorship Argentina

Juan Pablo Vera Lugo (Universidad Javeriana, Colombia)
Legal Subjectivities: The production of legal meaning in the context of multiculturalism and transitional justice in Colombia

Lieselotte Viaene (Ghent University, Belgium)
Localizing reparation after gross human rights violations: Maya Q’eqchi’ Voices on the National Reparations Programme of Guatemala

Gavin Weston (University of Sussex)
The Fiesta de Todos Santos: The Awkward Role of Gossip in Vigilante Justice

Graham Denyer Willis (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Justice Contrived: Civil Police, Constraint and Democracy in São Paulo, Brazil


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