Local Space, Global Life - The Everyday Operation of International Law and Development

This book examines the everyday functioning and impact of international law and the development project, particularly across cities in emergent nations.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Building the global from the local; 3. Development and the nation-state; 4. Development changes places; 5. The making of a new Bogotá; 6. The local self of the international; 7. Conclusions.

About the author

Luis Eslava is a lecturer in international law at Kent Law School, a senior fellow at Melbourne Law School, and an international professor at Universidad Externado de Colombia. He teaches and writes in the areas of international law, international legal theory and history, anthropology of international law, public law, law and development, and urban law and politics.

Summary

Local Space, Global Life offers an innovative account of the operation and everyday effects of international law and the development project. Adopting an ethnographic methodology to examine the current international focus on local jurisdictions, it demonstrates the academic and political value of the interdisciplinary study of international law.

Product details

• Authors: Luis Eslava, Luis (University of Kent Eslava, Eslava Luis
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.10.2016
• EAN: 9781107465091
• ISBN: 978-1-107-46509-1
• No. of pages: 374
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Ethnic Studies, Law, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General, LAW / International, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Public International Law, Social and cultural anthropology, Urban communities, Development Studies, Hispanic & Latino Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General