Table of Contents

Notes on the contributors; 1. Law, politics, and the subaltern in counter-hegemonic globalization Boaventura de Sousa Santos and César A. Rodríguez-Garavito; Part I. Law and the Construction of a Global Economy of Solidarity: 2. Beyond neoliberal governance: the World Social Forum as subaltern cosmopolitan politics and legality Boaventura de Sousa Santos; 3. Nike's law: the anti-sweatshop movement, transnational corporations, and the struggle over international labor rights in the Americas César A. Rodríguez-Garavito; 4. Corporate social responsibility: a case of hegemony and counter-hegemony Ronen Shamir; 5. Campaigning for life: building a new transnational solidarity in the face of HIV/AIDS and TRIPS Heinz Klug; 6. Negotiating informality within formality: land and housing in the Texas colonias Jane E. Larson; 7. Local contact points at global divides: labor rights and immigrant rights as sites for cosmopolitanism legality Fran Ansley; Part II. Transnational Social Movements and the Reconstruction of Human Rights: 8. Limits of law in counter-hegemonic globalization: the Indian Supreme Court and the Narmada Valley struggle Balakrishnan Rajagopal; 9. The Movement of the Landless (MST), juridicial field, and legal change in Brazil Peter P. Houtzager; 10. Indigenous rights, transnational activism, and legal mobilization: the struggle of the U'wa people in Colombia César A. Rodríguez-Garavito and Luis Carlos Arenas; 11. Defensive and oppositional counter-hegemonic uses of international law: from the International Criminal Court to the common heritage of humankind José Manuel Pureza; Part III. Law and Participatory Democracy: Between the Local and the Global: 12. Political and legal struggles over resources and democracy: experiences with gender budgeting in Tanzania Mary Rusimbi and Marjorie Mbilinyi; 13. Two democracies, two legalities: participatory budgeting in Porto Alegre, Brazil Boaventura de Sousa Santos; 14. Life, life world and life chances: vulnerability and survival in Indian constitutional law Shiv Visvanathan and Chandrika Parmar; 15. Bottom-up environmental law and democracy in the risk society: Portuguese experiences in the European context João Arriscado Nunes, Marisa Matias and Susana Costa; Index.

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An unprecedented attempt to analyze the role of the law in the global movement for social justice.

About the Author

Professor of Sociology at the University of Coimbra, Portugal and Distinguished Legal Scholar of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Assistant Professor of Law and Sociology at the University of Los Andes, Colombia and Fellow of the Institute for Legal Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

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"Law and Globalization from Below is a collection of deeply insightful and challenging essays." Benedict Sheehy, The Law and Politics Book Review