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Reckoning with Law in Excess: Mobilization, Confrontation, Refusal

Reckoning with Law in Excess: Mobilization, Confrontation, Refusal

Author: Mark Goodale; Olaf Zenker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781009499590
Published In: September 2025
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Reckoning with Law in Excess offers a ground-breaking approach to understanding the relationship between law and social and political transformation in a changing and uncertain world. The book's authors examine a wide range of case studies in which social movements pursue justice and social change within, against, and beyond the law. The interdisciplinary research at the heart of the volume reveals patterns in the ways in which law and legality are invested with heightened importance during certain historical moments, a process of over-loading that most often gives way to disenchantment with the ultimate limits of law. In reflecting critically and synthetically on these complicated dialectics of reckoning with law, the book shines a light on one of the most important, and consequential, dynamics in an era of climate crisis, rising populism across the political spectrum, and social conflict.

Introduction: social and political transformation within, against, and beyond the Law

Mark Goodale and Olaf Zenker

1. Reckoning with transformative constitutionalism: land reform, expropriation without compensation and the iconic indexicality of post-apartheid South Africa

Olaf Zenker

2. Beyond here lies somethin': juristocratic reckonings in two narratives of legalities

Lynette J. Chua

3. After constitutionalism: current pathways of legal domination

Julia Eckert and Kiri Santer

4. Re-presenting rights: food sovereignty and the struggle for postliberal democratic governance

Matthew Canfield

5. Translocal dilemmas: social mobilization and justice-seeking beyond the boundaries of Law

Mark Goodale

6. The enduring logic of mercy: humanitarianism and the eclipse of human rights

Arzoo Osanloo

7. Law and the afterlives of Utopia: reckoning with pasts and futures in Berlin's housing movement