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Chapter One - Theorizing Everyday Justice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2019

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Sandra Brunnegger
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Sandra Brunnegger
Sandra Brunnegger
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University of Cambridge
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Summary

Justice is endlessly negotiated in everyday life. What motivates the contributors of Everyday Justice is to account for the complexity of justice in the everyday. By using ethnographic studies from various locations and putting into play a range of approaches, the contributors of this volume argue for a view that takes everyday practices of justice as a starting point. The introduction then offers an overarching rationale for teasing out the framework of justice and injustice, justice and law, and relational justice as this has the potential to orient a theoretical account of (everyday) justice. The anthropology of justice in this volume sheds light on how people work every day to bring justice’s future promise – if we accept that justice holds such a promise – into the present.

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justicescapestemporalityspatialityinjusticerelationality
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Everyday Justice
Law, Ethnography, Injustice
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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