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Author Eslava, Luis, author

Title Local space, global life : the everyday operation of international law and development / Luis Eslava
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015

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Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. Building the global from the local -- 3. Development and the nation-state -- 4. Development changes places -- 5. The making of a new Bogotá -- 6. The local self of the international -- 7. Conclusions
Summary "Local Space, Global Life engages with the expansive, ground-level and intertwined operations of international law and the development project by discussing the current international focus on local jurisdictions. Since the mid-1980s, and through the discourse of decentralization, municipalities and cities in emerging nations have become the preferred spaces in which to promote global ideals of human, economic and environmental development. Through an ethnographic study of Bogotá's recent development experience and the city's changing relation to its illegal neighbourhoods, Luis Eslava interrogates this rationale and exposes the contradictions involved in the international turn to the local. Attentive to historical and current transformations, norms and praxis, he provides an innovative reading of the nature of international law and the development project, and reveals their impact on local spaces and lives at the urban periphery of today's world order"-- Provided by publisher
Notes Based on the author's thesis (doctoral) - University of Melbourne, Melbourne Law School, 2013
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Law and economic development -- Case studies
City planning and redevelopment law -- Colombia -- Bogotá
LAW -- International.
City planning and redevelopment law
Economic history
Law and economic development
SUBJECT Bogotá (Colombia) -- Economic conditions
Subject Colombia -- Bogotá
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
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