Indigeneity and Legal Pluralism in India - Claims, Histories, Meanings

This interdisciplinary study juxtaposes the popular, legal, and indigenous accounts of a dispute over a Coca-Cola bottling facility in India.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Locating a dispute; 3. A people's movement; 4. Litigants, lawyers, and the questions of law; 5. Claims and meanings; 6. Law, history, justice; 7. Conclusion.

About the author

Pooja Parmar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University, Ottawa. Her research on legal pluralism, indigeneity, human rights, and international law has been published in such journals as the Australian Feminist Law Journal, the International Community Law Review, and the Osgoode Hall Law Journal. Before entering academia, Parmar practised law in New Delhi.

Summary

This interdisciplinary study juxtaposes the popular, legal, and indigenous accounts of a dispute over a Coca-Cola facility in Kerala, India. It includes interviews with members of indigenous communities, activists, politicians, lawyers, and judges, as well as an analysis of litigation currently pending before the Supreme Court of India.

Product details

• Authors: Pooja Parmar, Pooja (Carleton University Parmar, Parmar Pooja
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.07.2015
• EAN: 9781107081185
• ISBN: 978-1-107-08118-5
• No. of pages: 262
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Law and Society; Cambridge Studies in Law and S; Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; Law, LAW / General, India, Politics & government, Comparative Politics, Black & Asian Studies, Law & society, Law and society, sociology of law