State-building as lawfare: custom, Sharia, and state law in postwar Chechnya

State-Building as Lawfare explores the use of state and non-state legal systems by both politicians and ordinary people in postwar Chechnya. The book addresses two interrelated puzzles: why do local rulers tolerate and even promote non-state legal systems at the expense of state law, and why do some...

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1. Verfasser: Lazarev, Egor 1989- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2023
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge studies in comparative politics
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Zusammenfassung:State-Building as Lawfare explores the use of state and non-state legal systems by both politicians and ordinary people in postwar Chechnya. The book addresses two interrelated puzzles: why do local rulers tolerate and even promote non-state legal systems at the expense of state law, and why do some members of repressed ethnic minorities choose to resolve their everyday disputes using state legal systems instead of non-state alternatives? The book documents how the rulers of Chechnya promote and reinvent customary law and Sharia in order to borrow legitimacy from tradition and religion, increase autonomy from the metropole, and accommodate communal authorities and former rebels. At the same time, the book shows how prolonged armed conflict disrupted the traditional social hierarchies and pushed some Chechen women to use state law, spurring state formation from below
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State-building as lawfare : the view from above and from below -- The field : ethnography of legal pluralism in postwar Chechnya -- The Chechen way : lawfare under Imperial and Soviet rule -- "There are no camels in Chechnya!" lawfare during the independence period -- "We will use every resource!" jurisdictional politics in postwar Chechnya -- Laws in conflict : hybrid legal order in contemporary Chechnya -- "People need law" : demand for social order after conflict -- Chechen women go to court : war and women's lawfare -- Conclusion
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xv, 321 Seiten)
ISBN:9781009245913
DOI:10.1017/9781009245913