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Global Norms and Local Courts - Translating the Rule of Law in Bangladesh (Hardcover)
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Global Norms and Local Courts - Translating the Rule of Law in Bangladesh (Hardcover)
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What happens to transnational norms when they travel from one place
to another? How do norms change when they move; and how do they
affect the place where they arrive? This book develops a novel
theoretical account of norm translation that is located in between
theories of norm diffusion and norm localization. It demonstrates
how such translations do not follow linear trajectories from 'the
global' to 'the local', rather, they unfold in a recursive back and
forth movement between different actors located in different
context. As norms are translated, their meaning changes; and only
if their meaning changes in ways that are intelligible to people
within a specific context, the social and political dynamics of
this context do change as well. This book analyses translations of
'the rule of law', focusing on contemporary donor-driven projects
with non-state courts in rural Bangladesh, and shows how in these
projects, global norms change local courts - but only if they are
translated, often in unexpected ways from the perspective of
international actors. Based on extensive fieldwork, this book
reveals how grassroots level employees of local NGOs significantly
alter the meaning of global norms - for example when they translate
secular notions of the rule of law into the language of Islam and
Islamic Law - and only thereby also enhance participatory spaces
for marginalized people.
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