Aboriginal people in a time of disorder : exploring indigenous interactions with justice in Colombia

This study of law and aboriginal people in Colombia builds on the premise that law is a form of local knowledge and that state law is reshaped locally, producing outcomes unanticipated by the state itself. Comaroff’s (2001) idea of lawfare, in which the state uses a legal regime to erode local auton...

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Main Author: Gomez-Isaza, Lina Maria
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/27951