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Cultural Studies Encounters Legal Pluralism: Certain Objects of Order, Law and Culture

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Ian Duncanson
Ian Duncanson
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Law and Legal Studies, LaTrobe University, Australia
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Abstract

Cultural studies provides an interesting conceptual perspective on legal pluralism for a number of reasons. Rather than asking ontological questions about parallel legal systems, cultural studies frameworks encourage questions about the meanings which might be generated for “law” at the plural sites of intersection of regulatory phenomena: legal meanings must defer to questions about how a subject is positioned, subjected. Narratives of culture, broadly conceived, also allow us to notice the diverse, fluid and often contradictory patterns of regulation and discipline created when there are politically powerful beliefs in the singularity of order and certainty. The efforts in Anglophone cultures to create an “English” heritage safe from various threatening others is echoed in jurisprudential specifications of the criteria of legality.

Résumé

L'abord du pluralisme juridique sous l'angle de l'étude des diversités culturelles offre, du point de vue conceptuel, un certain intérêt. Contrairement à l'approche ontologique des systèmes parallèles de droit, la méthodologie des études sur la culture favorise l'interrogation sur le sens qu'on peut donner à la «loi» au carrefour des divers phénomènes de normalisation: la recherche du sens du droit doit renvoyer à la situation du sujet et son état de sujet. L'étude de cas nous permet de concevoir la culture, dans son acception la plus large, de mettre en évidence la diversité, la subtilité et la contradiction qui caractérisent les modes normatifs et disciplinaires établis sur la base de crédos politiques bien ancrés en l'originalité de l'ordre et de la certitude. Les efforts déployés par les groupes culturels anglo-saxons en vue de protéger l'héritage «anglais» contre les assauts divers «autres» trouvent écho dans la définition de légalité donnée par la jurisprudence.

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Canadian Journal of Law and Society / La Revue Canadienne Droit et Société , Volume 12 , Issue 02: Le Pluralisme juridique/Legal Pluralism , Fall/automne 1997 , pp. 115 - 142
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