Routledge Readings on Law, Development and Legal Pluralism: Ecology, Families, Governance

Routledge Readings on Law, Development, and Legal Pluralism is a multidisciplinary volume that explores the politics and plural lives of law, focusing on social justice, environment, rights, and governance. It includes perspectives from major authors and covers critical themes such as ecology, families, and governance, tracing violence and marginality in the plurality of families and their laws in India. The book highlights the debates on development, governance, and families and establishes the trajectory of contemporary ecology and law in South Asia. It is useful for students, scholars, policymakers, and practitioners interested in law, marginality, kinship, and indigeneity studies, as well as law, socio-legal studies, environment studies, ecology, social exclusion studies, development studies, South Asian studies, human rights, jurisprudence, and constitutional studies.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 380 pages
Publication date: 29 January 2024
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Routledge Readings on Law, Development, and Legal Pluralism is a comprehensive collection of essays that delve into critical social justice, environmental, rights, and governance issues. Written by esteemed scholars, this book offers a fresh introduction that provides a comprehensive guide to understanding the harm and risks associated with biodiversity, agro-ecology, disasters, and forest rights.

The book explores diverse themes such as ecology, families, and governance, establishing the trajectory of contemporary ecology and law in South Asia. Comprising thirteen chapters, divided into three sections, the volume examines violence and marginality within the diverse families and their laws in India. It also discusses community-based just practices, highlighting the importance of inclusive and equitable legal frameworks.

Through engaging debates on development, governance, and families, the book sheds light on the politics and practices of lawmaking, law reform, and law application. This multidisciplinary volume brings together perspectives from prominent authors who have made significant contributions to the academic and policy discourse of law.

This book is a valuable resource for students, scholars, policymakers, and practitioners seeking a nuanced understanding of law, particularly those studying law, marginality, kinship, and indigeneity studies. It will serve as a fundamental reading for those in law, socio-legal studies, environment studies, ecology, social exclusion studies, development studies, South Asian studies, human rights, jurisprudence, constitutional studies, gender studies, history, politics, conflict, and peace studies, sociology, and social anthropology. It will also appeal to legal historians, environmentalists, and those in public administration.

Weight: 453g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032290133