International scholars offer ethnographic analyses of the relations
between transnationalism, law, and culture The recent surge of
right-wing populism in Europe and the United States is widely
perceived as evidence of ongoing challenges to the policies and
institutions of globalization. But as editors Carol J. Greenhouse
and Christina L. Davis observe in their introduction to Landscapes
of Law, the appeal to national culture is not restricted to the
ethno-nationalisms of the developing world outside of industrial
democracies nor to insurgent groups within them. The essays they
have collected in this volume reveal how claims of national culture
emerge in the pursuit of transnationalism and, under some
circumstances, become embedded within international law. The
premise that there is inherent tension between nationalism and
globalism is misleading. Whether asserted explicitly as state
sovereignty or implicitly as cultural community, claims of national
culture mediate how governments assert their interests and values
when engaging with transnational law. Landscapes of Law
demonstrates how nationalism operates in the contested zone between
borderless capital and bordered states. Drawing from the fields of
anthropology, international relations, law, political science, and
sociology, the book's international contributors examine the ways
in which claims of national differences are produced within
transnational institutions. Insights from case studies across a
wide range of topics reveal how such claims may be worked into
policy prescriptions and legal arrangements or provide ad hoc
bargaining chips. Together, they show that expressions of national
culture outside of state boundaries consolidate claims of
sovereignty. The contributors offer innovative frameworks for
analyzing the relationships among transnationalism, law, and
cultural claims at various levels and scales. They demonstrate how
overlapping communities use law to define borders and shape
relationships among actors rather than to generate a single social
ordering. Landscapes of Law traces the theoretical implications
generated by an understanding of transnational law that challenges
the conventional separation of individual, community, society,
national, and international spaces. Contributors: Katayoun Alidadi,
Tugba Basaran, Rachel Brewster, Sandra Brunnegger, Christina L.
Davis, Sara Dezalay, Marie-Claire Foblets, Henry Gao, Carol J.
Greenhouse, David Leheny, Mark Fathi Massoud, Teresa
Rodriguez-de-las-Heras Ballell, Gregory Shaffer, Mariana Valverde.
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