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- Rule of Law Intermediaries
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
- Rule of Law Intermediaries
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Chapter One Introduction
- Chapter Two Between Universals and Particulars: Rule of Law as a Travelling Model
- Chapter Three Intermediaries: Who, What, When?
- Chapter Four Rule of Law Assistance: Actors and Technologies
- Chapter Five The Emergence of Intermediaries
- Chapter Six Intermediaries: Background, Capital, Motivations
- Chapter Seven Intermediaries as Trust Builders
- Chapter Eight Intermediaries as Translators
- Chapter Nine Intermediaries’ Influence, Foreign Actors’ Dependence
- Appendix Overview of Research Participants
- References
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
Chapter Eight - Intermediaries as Translators
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 April 2021
- Rule of Law Intermediaries
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
- Rule of Law Intermediaries
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Chapter One Introduction
- Chapter Two Between Universals and Particulars: Rule of Law as a Travelling Model
- Chapter Three Intermediaries: Who, What, When?
- Chapter Four Rule of Law Assistance: Actors and Technologies
- Chapter Five The Emergence of Intermediaries
- Chapter Six Intermediaries: Background, Capital, Motivations
- Chapter Seven Intermediaries as Trust Builders
- Chapter Eight Intermediaries as Translators
- Chapter Nine Intermediaries’ Influence, Foreign Actors’ Dependence
- Appendix Overview of Research Participants
- References
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
Summary
This chapter concerns the translation of the rule of law by and through intermediaries. The intermediaries change and distort the messages from their global employers and funders in order to make them palatable to local and national actors – and also to build their own local career trajectories. The chapter highlights the main translation challenges that rule of law practitioners experience and presents intermediaries’ insider perspectives on how they translate rule of law. By analysing the strategies that intermediaries use, the chapter concludes that intermediaries become influential in their role as translators. While Myanmar’s political history and reality have produced a semi-authoritarian form of rule of law, associations with formal aspects of the concept were initially enhanced by foreign promoters who brought in their versions of a concept they deemed modelled on international standards that were universal and non-negotiable.
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- Rule of Law IntermediariesBrokering Influence in Myanmar, pp. 178 - 202Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021