Law and Globalization from Below Towards a Cosmopolitan Legality [Paperback]

An unprecedented attempt to analyze the role of the law in the global movement for social justice.This book engages with scholarly and political debates on law and globalization. It deals with the use of the law by social movements around the world that contest market-friendly policies and institutions and corporate-led globalization. Its main purpose is to analyze and document the combination of law and politics in struggles that combine resistance at the local, national and global levels. Its main purpose is to rigorously analyze different case studies to draw lessons about the potential of such struggles to transform global law and politics.This book engages with scholarly and political debates on law and globalization. It deals with the use of the law by social movements around the world that contest market-friendly policies and institutions and corporate-led globalization. Its main purpose is to analyze and document the combination of law and politics in struggles that combine resistance at the local, national and global levels. Its main purpose is to rigorously analyze different case studies to draw lessons about the potential of such struggles to transform global law and politics.Written by leading scholars, these case studies represent an unprecedented attempt to analyze the role of the law in the global movement for social justice. They combine empirical research with innovative sociolegal theory to shed new light on a wide array of topics. Among the issues examined are the role of law and politics in the World Social Forum; the struggle on the anti-sweeping movement for the protection of international labor rights; and the challenge to neoliberal globalization and liberal human rights raised by grassroots movements in India and indigenous peoples around the world.Notes on the contributors; 1. Law, politics, and the subaltern in counter-hegemonic globalization Boaventura de Sousa Santos and C?sar A. Rodr?guez-Garavito; Part I. Law and the Construction of a lS: