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The Challenge of Legal Pluralism: Local Dispute Settlement and the Indian-State Relationship in Ecuador

The Challenge of Legal Pluralism: Local Dispute Settlement and the Indian-State Relationship in Ecuador

Thomas, Marc Simon

Hardcover

Series: Cultural Diversity and Law

General Law

ISBN10: 1472480570
ISBN13: 9781472480576
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 19 2016
Pages: 266
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Within the Latin American context, legal pluralism is often depicted as a dichotomy between customary law and national law. In addition, the use of customary law alongside national law is frequently portrayed as a vehicle of resistance.

This book argues that, because ordinary Indians are not positively biased in favor of customary law per se, a heterogeneity of legal practices can be observed on a daily basis, which consequently undermines the commonly held view of customary law as a counter-hegemonic strategy, even if, on other socio-geographical levels, this thinking in terms of resistance holds true. Based on qualitative research, the work analyzes how internal conflicts among indigenous inhabitants of the Ecuadorian highlands are being settled in a situation of formal legal pluralism, and what can be learned from this in terms of Indian-state relationships. It is shown that, on a local level, the phenomenological dimension of legal pluralism can be termed interlegality. On a macro level, ontological assumptions underscore that legal pluralism is still seen as a dichotomy between customary and national law.

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