Local space, global life : the everyday operation of international law and development / Luis Eslava.
2015
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Author
Title
Local space, global life : the everyday operation of international law and development / Luis Eslava.
Published
Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Call Number
K3820 .E835 2015
ISBN
9781107092129 (hardback)
1107092124 (hardback)
1107092124 (hardback)
Description
xxi, 351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)903473917
Summary
"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 Bogotá'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"-- Provided by publisher.
Note
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral) - University of Melbourne, Melbourne Law School, 2013.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-337) and index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
List of figures
ix
List of tables
xi
Preface
xiii
Abbreviations
xx
Map
xxi
1.
Introduction
1
1.1.
Research scope
8
1.2.
Book outline
39
1.3.
Data collection
52
1.4.
Conclusions
53
2.
Building the global from the local
56
2.1.
One day in New York ...
58
2.2.
From New York to the global periphery
61
2.3.
conditions of Bogota's transformation
73
2.4.
Conclusions
89
3.
Development and the nation-state
91
3.1.
One day in Washington, DC ...
96
3.2.
Launching development as nation-building
102
3.3.
Development in Colombia (1950s--1980s)
122
3.4.
Conclusions
137
4.
Development changes places
139
4.1.
Decentralization and its norms
141
4.2.
Decentralization and international legitimacy today
155
4.3.
Technologies and regulations of local development
162
4.4.
Conclusions
170
5.
making of a new Bogota
174
5.1.
Decentralization and the strengthening of Bogota
178
5.2.
Control of illegal neighbourhoods
190
5.3.
process of neighbourhood legalization
208
5.4.
Conclusions
234
6.
local self of the international
237
6.1.
local performance of international authority
239
6.2.
Disaggregation of international responsibility
252
6.3.
Resistance and local life
264
6.4.
Conclusions
288
7.
Conclusions
293
7.1.
Decentralizing the world
294
7.2.
International law and development from the ground
298
7.3.
Moving to the local and the everyday
299
Bibliography
306
Index
338