SOCI 3823 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Rationality, Universal Binary
13 Dec 2017
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Class 17: human rights & gender violence ii. Applies universal principles to al situations uniformly. How do you bridge the divide between local contexts and legal rationality. Women"s rights as excuse for persecution of muslims. Failure to look at hindu policies/practices in regard to women. Creation of personal law system to minimize resistance to british rule. Ignore women"s rights in the cross-hairs of communalism. Legal consciousness: the way in which people make sense of law and legal institutions, that is, the understandings which give meaning to people"s experiences and actions. The ways in which the law is experienced and understood by ordinary citizens as they choose to invoke the law, to avoid it, or to resist it, is an essential part of the life of the law. Buddhist concepts opposed to liberal legalism and rights consciousness. Fiji country reports objects to the use of bulubulu for rape cases in court. Cedaw committee challenges bulubulu as harmful traditional practice .
