The Violence of Care: Rape Victims, Forensic Nurses, and Sexual Assault Intervention
Sexual violence has recently received considerable media attention, featuring stories of campus rape in the U.S., and sexual assault in…
Posts Tagged 'legal'
Review Essay: Performing Accountability and Corporate Social Responsibility
In 2015, as a capstone to a ten-year program of corporate shaming, a global coalition of activists awarded its Public Eye “lifetime achievement award.” The “honor” for most egregious environmental…
Political and Legal Transformations of an Indonesian Polity: The Nagari from Colonisation to Decentralisation
Franz von Benda-Beckmann and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann are well known for their anthropological studies of social workings of law, legal…
Border Work: Spatial Lives of the State in Rural Central Asia
At the lived edges of political maps, who has the right to impersonate the state, uphold its law and…
The Spirit of the Laws in Mozambique
Mozambique achieved independence from Portuguese colonial rule in 1975 and became a socialist state. Its FRELIMO rulers imposed a ban…
Our Word is Our Bond
Our Word is Our Bond begins and ends with a lofty question, one that has occupied legal anthropologists from the…
On the Doorsteps of Europe: Asylum and Citizenship in Greece
Heath Cabot’s On the Doorsteps of Europe examines how asylum seekers transform the Greek body politic. This story is a…