International Law

Local Space, Global Life: The Everyday Operation of International Law and Development

By Luis Eslava
Cambridge University Press October 2016

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9781107465091
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
October 2016
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Paperback
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U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Local Space, Global Life engages with the expansive, ground-level and intertwined operations of international law and the development project by discussing the current international focus on local jurisdictions. Since the mid-1980s, and through the discourse of decentralization, municipalities and cities in emerging nations have become the preferred spaces in which to promote global ideals of human, economic and environmental development.

Through an ethnographic study of Bogota's recent development experience and the city's changing relation to its illegal neighbourhoods, Luis Eslava interrogates this rationale and exposes the contradictions involved in the international turn to the local. Attentive to historical and current transformations, norms and praxis, he provides an innovative reading of the nature of international law and the development project, and reveals their impact on local spaces and lives at the urban periphery of today's world order.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Building the global from the local
3. Development and the nation-state
4. Development changes places
5. The making of a new Bogota
6. The local self of the international
7. Conclusions.
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