Constitutional Ethnography: An Introduction

Scheppele, Kim Lane

doi:10.1111/j.0023-9216.2004.00051.x

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“…This requires language skills, rich knowledge of the local political ecology, and extensive fieldwork. "Constitutional ethnography" (Scheppele 2004a) conducted in a variety of locales over the past two decades is beginning to reveal both common dynamics and distinctive features across regimes, as is clear from frequent cross-referencing in the literature. We are now at the moment when more general theory building might proceed, but the temptation to overreach with universal theoretical claims is ever present.…”

Section: Methodological Concernsmentioning

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Law and Courts in Authoritarian Regimes

Moustafa

2014

Annu. Rev. Law. Soc. Sci.

152

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Once regarded as mere pawns of their regimes, courts in authoritarian states are now the subject of considerable attention within the field of comparative judicial politics. New research examines the ways in which law and courts are deployed as instruments of governance, how they structure state-society contention, and the circumstances in which courts are transformed into sites of active resistance. This new body of research constitutes an emergent field of inquiry, while simultaneously contributing to a number of related research agendas, including authoritarian durability and regime transition, human rights, transitional justice, law and development, and rule-of-law promotion. Moreover, this research offers important insights into the erosion of rights and liberties in "consolidated democracies."

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Section: Methodological Concernsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Law and Courts in Authoritarian Regimes

Moustafa

2014

Annu. Rev. Law. Soc. Sci.

152

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“…This form of non-physical violence latently serves for redefining who among the previously included will now be excluded (Š tiks, 2010, p. 15). In this paper, I investigate the post-Yugoslav occurrences of such epistemic violence based on the method of constitutional ethnography developed by Scheppele (2004). This method offers the possibility of critically analysing chosen legal texts (in this case citizenship acts, constitutions, other relevant legal material, etc.)…”

Section: Theorizing Uneven Access To Citizenship and In-betweenness Omentioning

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Romani Minorities and Uneven Citizenship Access in the Post-Yugoslav Space

Sardelić

2015

Ethnopolitics

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This paper discusses the position of Romani minorities in the light of the state dissolution and further citizenship regime transformations after the disintegration of the former Socialist Yugoslavia. While observing closely the repositioning of the Romani minorities in the post-Yugoslav space, it explicates that in the case of state dissolution, the unevenness of citizenship does not only manifest in the rights dimension, but also in uneven access to citizenship with regard to new polities.

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“…These common places have long constituted a centre of interest in law-and-society research, which 'portrays law from the 'bottom up' as a continuing production of practical reason and action', and focuses on 'how, where, and with what effect law is produced in and through commonplace social interactions' (Ewick & Silbey 1998: 19 -20). Ethnographic methods are sometimes explicitly mentioned in this body of literature, for example when Scheppele (2004) advocates 'constitutional ethnography'. For Scheppele, however, this term refers to 'the contextually detailed, empirical study of particular constitutional systems ' (2004: 401), and her focus remains on 'the role of courts in constituting and sustaining constitutional orders ' (2004: 405) and 'comparative constitutional observation ' (2004: 394) achieved through ethnographic research.…”

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Constitutional Faith Law and Hope in Revolutionary Kyrgyzstan

Beyer

2013

Ethnos

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This article investigates the interrelation between law and hope in the context of constitutional change in the Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan. Drawing upon ethnographic and textual data, it is shown that the constitution has acquired particular discursive importance in Kyrgyzstan each time the foundations of the state have been severely challenged or shattered. Paying particular attention to three major political conflicts, the article demonstrates how, in the aftermath of each, speeches, performances, presentations and conversations were infused with 'constitutional faith', binding together the political elite and ordinary citizens in an expression of their general hope that constitutional change could bring about a better future. I view constitutional faith as a practice of hope that allows people to actively engage with their being-in-the-world, particularly in times of crisis. In the aftermath of large-scale political conflict, with which I am concerned here, it can become a faith-based mode of conflict resolution.

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Constitutional Ethnography: An Introduction

Cited by 98 publications

References 13 publications

Law and Courts in Authoritarian Regimes

Law and Courts in Authoritarian Regimes

Romani Minorities and Uneven Citizenship Access in the Post-Yugoslav Space

Constitutional Faith Law and Hope in Revolutionary Kyrgyzstan

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