ABSTRACT

This book explores recent developments in the concept of hybridity through a multi-disciplinary perspective, bringing ideas about legal plurality together with the fields of peace, development and cultural studies. Analysing the concepts of hybridity and hybridization, their history, their application in law and legal studies, and their implications for thinking and rethinking legal plurality, the book shows how the concept of hybridity can contribute to an understanding of the processes that occur when different normative or legal orders or frameworks confront each other.

part |14 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|12 pages

Critical hybridity

Exploring cultural, legal and political pluralism

part I|74 pages

Localising hybridity

chapter 2|20 pages

Nothing more than a conceptual lens?

Situating hybridity in social inquiry

chapter 3|21 pages

Peace as a hybrid human right

A new way to realise human rights, or entrenching their systematic failure?

chapter 5|15 pages

Hybrid processes for hybrid outcomes

NGO participation at the United Nations Human Rights Council

part II|69 pages

Hybridity in history and culture

chapter 6|14 pages

From Romanised subject to sophisticated code-switcher

The formation of thought on hybridity and the spread of Roman culture

chapter 8|19 pages

Legal hybridity in Shakespeare

Revisiting the post-colonial in The Tempest and Cymbeline

chapter 9|17 pages

Hybridity and the Ottoman

What can we learn from the Ottoman statebuilding framework?

part III|76 pages

New developments in hybridity and legal pluralism

chapter 10|21 pages

Legal and normative pluralism, hybridity and human rights

The Universal Periodic Review

chapter 11|23 pages

Deconstructing a sovereign right

The hybridisation of the anti-death penalty discourse in Europe

chapter 12|13 pages

Describing a rights realisation hybrid

The example of socio-economic rights

chapter 13|17 pages

From hybrid to cybrid?

The formation and regulation of online ‘hybrid’ identities

part IV|63 pages

Hybrid approaches to peace, development and justice

chapter 14|18 pages

Hybrid approaches to peace and justice

The case of post-genocide Rwanda

chapter 15|14 pages

Hybridity or coexistence?

The politics of legal pluralism in the West African countryside

chapter 16|16 pages

Hybridity as a tool for deconstruction

The case of child witches

chapter 17|13 pages

The view from law and new governance

A critical appraisal of hybridity in peace and development studies

part |26 pages

Conclusion

chapter 18|24 pages

After hybridity?