Criminal Legalities and Minorities in the Global South Rights and Resistance in a Decolonial World
“Radics and Ciocchini have deftly curated the contributions of new and established scholars in a work that amply illustrates why scholarship from the Global South matters in building knowledge and shaping theory.” —Dee Smythe, Professor and Director of the Centre for Law and Society at the Universit...
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Palgrave Macmillan
2023, 2023
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023 |
| Series: | Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Rebuilding after violence
- Chapter 1. The Caradiru Prison Massacre and Ongoing Military Repression in Brazil (Emilio Meyer, Marta Machado)
- Chapter 2. Politics before Law: The New Penal Code of 2017 and its Limited Protections for Ethnic Minorities in Post-Conflict Afghanistan (Bashir Mobasher, Nasiruddin Nezaami)
- Chapter 3. “Between denial and memory” a socio-legal reading of securitisation narratives in Transitional Colombia (Gustavo Rojas Paez). - Part II. Economic interest and the state
- Chapter 4. Enforcing Exclusion through the Law: The National Register of Citizens in India (Suraj Gogoi)
- Chapter 5. Colonial Legal Continuities in Post-Colonial Pakistan: A look at the construction of law, ownership and crime (Sabeen Kazmi)
- Chapter 6. (Cr)Immigration and Merit-Based Migration in the Global South: Policing "Alcoholic Indians" and "Bangladeshi Terrorists" in Singapore (George Radics)
- Chapter 13. A queer chinkhoswe: Reimagining the customary in Malawi (Nigel Timothy Mpemba Patel)
- Chapter 7. Disciplining colonial subjects: Neoliberal Legalities, Disasters and the Criminalization of Protest in Puerto Rico (José Atiles Osoria)
- Part III. Entrenched cultural biases
- Chapter 8. “Truth” and “Consent” in Sexual Violence Reporting in Criminal Justice and Legal Contexts in Singapore (Dr Joseph Greener, Stacy Ooi). - Chapter 9. Between Toys and Behind Bars: Mothers in Jail in the State of Ceará, Brazil (Lara Nascimento Meneses, João Araújo Monteiro Neto, Nestor Eduardo Araruna Santiago)
- Chapter 10. The “War on Drugs” in Philippine Criminal Courts: Legal Professionals' Moral Discourse and Plea Bargaining in Drug-Related Cases (Pablo Ciocchini, Jayson Lamchek)
- Part IV. Criminalisation of Diversity. - Chapter 11. Circuits of Law: Everyday Criminalisation of Transgender Embodiment in Istanbul (Ezgi Taşcıoğlu). - Chapter 12. Reaffirming Womanhood: Young transwomen and online sex work in Philippines (Veronica Gregorio)