The international uses of the notion of legal field

Referência ao artigo original Dezalay, Yves Les usages internationaux du concept de champ juridique. Actes de la Recherche em Sciences Sociales, 2013/5, n. 200

A construção jurídica de uma política de notáveis: o jogo duplo da elite do judiciário indiano no mercado da virtude cívica

A construção legal de uma política de notáveis. A história do Bar Indiano ilustra os fatores sociais que determinam o entrelaçamento entre direito e política – assim como seus altos e baixos. Assim, a mobilização do Bar contra o estado de emergência imposto por Indira Gandhi não foi suficiente para restaurar seu crédito político, obtido durante as lutas pela independência e perdido por conta da sua oposição às reformas agrárias. Por outro lado, ao tornarse a heroína dos desprivilegiados, a Suprema Corte emergiu como o árbitro de querelas políticas. Isto pode ser visto como uma divisão simbólica do trabalho no campo do poder

Henimod entreprenant miljøpraksis - en præliminær analyse af dansk miljøekspertise som socialt felt

From militant to entrepreneu-rial environmental practice: on the construction and trans-formation of a Danish field of environmental expertise By tracing the trajectories of holders of environmental expertise, this article attempts to understand the social construction of environmental protection measures in Denmark. The focus is not on these measures, per se, but rather on them as the product of inter-professional battles in, out and around that state. With an analytical starting point in the reflexive sociology developed by Pierre Bourdieu, the social space in which these struggles are taking place is seen as an open fluid field constituted by a mixture of loosely connected symbolic practices occupying different (and changing) positions within the field of state power. The article argues that the environmental space was initially dominated by a group of older lawyers and social scientists and was reconstructed by the arrival of young engineers and biologists, who came from the radicalized parts of the university milieu and similar social networks. The environmental field has recently developed in several directions. The original experts are still involved in the mainstream technical way of dealing with the environment. At the same time they are links to a new generation of environmental experts engaged in market-oriented symbolic investments in eco-management and accountancy. The success of the environmental movement has caused both renewed interest and a diffusion of the groups of agents at the same time

Enquêter sur l’internationalisation des noblesses d’État. Retour réflexif sur des stratégies de double jeu

Cultures & Conflits : Si Yves Dezalay, avec ou sans Bryant Garth, était à notre place dans cette situation d’entretien, face par exemple à un représentant des élites juridiques, par quelle question commencerait-il ? Yves Dezalay : Très simple ! Parce que c’est toujours la même question, et c’est une approche qui a été, non pas rationalisée, mais élaborée en fonction de ce qui marche et de ce qui ne marche pas. C’est de demander : « Comment en êtes-vous arrivé là où vous êtes ? » Comme les mem..

Central Asia and the globalisation of the contemporary legal consciousness

What is the logic which governs the processes of legal globalization? How does the transnational proliferation of legal forms operate in the contemporary geo-juridical space? What are the main defining characteristics of the currently dominant mode of transnational legal consciousness and how can the concept of legal consciousness help us understand better the historical ebb and flow of the Western-led projects of good governance promotion in regions like Central Asia after the fall of the Soviet Union? Using Duncan Kennedy’s seminal essay Three Globalizations of Law and Legal Thought as its starting platform, this essay seeks to explore these and a series of other related questions, while also drawing on the work of the Greek Marxist lawyer-philosopher Nicos Poulantzas to help elucidate some latent analytical stress-points in Kennedy’s broader theoretical framework. Reacting against the neo-Orientalist tone adopted across much of the contemporary field of Central Asian studies, it develops an alternative account of the internal history of the legal-globalizational encounter between the Western-based reform entrepreneurs and the national legal-political elites in Central Asia in the post-1991 period, complementing it with a detailed description of the general institutional and discursive structures within which this encounter took place