Law, Power and Culture
Supporting Change From Within
by Fauzia Knight
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Book Details
| Print ISBN | 9780230304536 |
| eText ISBN | 9781137315809 |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Publishing Year | 2014 |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 190 |
Law, Power and Culture: Supporting Change From Within presents a theoretical framework examining how individuals respond to inequalities that occur within their own communities.
The book draws on empirical research on the Santal people of Asia, analyzing how kinship, ritual, and state institutions shape subordination. It traces power relations within social fields to identify a typology of power practices, exploring both the limits of alternative legal orders and the strategies of non-compliance used to realize needs from within.
Applying these findings to forced marriage in the West, the study examines power renegotiation within families. It addresses the shortcomings of early state rescue interventions that prioritized extracting individuals from their communities over engaging internal relations.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Power, Resistance and Legal Pluralism: Processes of Freedom and Constraint
Chapter 3: The Santal: Processes of Subordination in the State
Chapter 4: The Primary Construction of Inequality: Kinship, Law and Ritual in the Santal Family and Village
Chapter 5: Resisting from Without: The Illusive Promise of the Alternative Legal Order
Chapter 6: The Realization of Needs from Within: The Power Product and Non-compliance
Chapter 7: A Tripartite Theory: Power Practices and Embedded Change
Chapter 8: Forced Marriage: Engaging with Renegotiations Within
Chapter 9: Conclusion
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