Organizers:

César Rodríguez- Garavito, University of The Andes and University of Wisconsin-Madison

Boaventura de Sousa Santos, University of Coimbra and University of Wisconsin-Madison

Description

The CRN/IRC on Law and Counter-Hegemonic Globalization will hold three activities during the Berlin LSA/RCSL conference. The activities and the CRN/IRC at large are open to scholars interested in becoming an active part of the group. This CRN/IRC is a discussion and publication space for scholars from the global South and the global North engaged in critical sociolegal research and legal advocacy across borders. The activities and publications of the CRN seek to analyze the role of the law in the global movement for social justice. Members’ work combines empirical research on the ground with innovative sociolegal theory to shed new light on a wide array of topics. Among the issues examined thus far are the role of law and politics in the World Social Forum; the struggle of the anti-sweatshop 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. The CRN aims to contribute to developing new social and legal theories capable of capturing the potential and tensions of counter-hegemonic globalization.

Berlin Activities (New Members Welcome)

The list of activities at Berlin is as follows. If you wish to attend the business meeting on Thursday, July 26, please email Cesar Rodriguez-Garavito at cerodrig@uniandes.edu.co

1)      Wednesday, July 25, 4:30-6:15PM: Paper Session with the participation of some of the old and new members of the group. This will be an opportunity to expand the network and make progress toward a new collective publication by having new members produce theoretically informed and empirically grounded cases on the role of law in counter-hegemonic globalization

Session Participants:

Co-Chairs: Cesar Rodriguez-Garavito (U of the Andes/ U of Wisconsin,

Madison), Boaventura de Sousa Santos (University of Coimbra)

--Dangerous Sex, Invisible Labor: Mobilizing "Entertainment Workers" In India

Prabha Kotiswaran (London University)

--Contesting the Global Governance of Labor: Law and the Transnational Labor Movement in the Americas (1990-2005)

Cesar Rodriguez-Garavito (U of the Andes/ U of Wisconsin, Madison)

--The Third Globalization: The Rise of Political Theology and Its Impact on Democracy and the Rule of Law

Boaventura de Sousa Santos (University of Coimbra)

--Courts, Poverty, and Law in Africa: The Case of Angola

José O. Serra van-Dúnem (Angolan Institute for Social and Economic Research)

--Development in Question: The Struggle Over Land, Development, and

Indigenous Rights in Colombia

Tatiana Alfonso (Universidad de los Andes)

2)      Thursday, July 26, 4:30-6:15PM: Featured Session with the participation of some of the members who attended the Baltimore meeting.

Session Participants:

Co-Chair: Boaventura de Sousa Santos (U of Coimbra), Cesar Rodriguez-Garavito (U of the Andes/ U of Wisconsin)

--Unfinished Decolonization: Land and the Law of the New Basics

Boaventura de Sousa Santos (University of Coimbra)

--Xucuru do Ororubá: Indigenous Struggles, the State, and Post-Colonial

Diversity in Northeast Brazil

Cecilia MacDowell Santos (U of San Francisco/U of Coimbra)

--Law and Counter-Hegemonic Globalization: Toward a Theory of Transnational Legal Mobilization

Cesar Rodriguez-Garavito (U of the Andes/ U of Wisconsin, Madison)

--Traditional Authorities, Law, and Ethnic Identities in Mozambique: The Quest for a Post-Colonial State

Maria Paula G. Meneses (Coimbra University)

--Discussant: Angelina Snodgrass-Godoy (University of Washington)

3)      Dinner meeting on Thursday, July 26, 7:00PM

An informal with old and new members of the group to discuss plans for the production of papers for a new edited volume or special journal issue on law and counter-hegemonic globalization.