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Record Nr.

UNISA996197717903316

Autore

Pavlich George C (George Clifford), <1960, >

Titolo

Justice fragmented : mediating community disputes under postmodern conditions / / George C. Pavlich

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1996

ISBN

1-134-82960-4

1-134-82961-2

1-280-32054-0

0-203-42836-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Disciplina

307.0971

347.079

347/.09

Soggetti

Dispute resolution (Law)

Neighborhood justice centers

Mediation

Dispute resolution (Law) - British Columbia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 176-199) and index.

Nota di contenuto

JUSTICE FRAGMENTED Mediating community disputes under postmodernconditions; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 In Search ofa Beginning...; Approaching criticism or critical approach?; Concepts, concepts, concepts; Signposting the narrative; 2 The Fragmented Auspices of CommunityJustice; Enunciating justice: two horizons of meaning; Approaching justice in a modern ethos; Justice talk in the interregnum; Justice in search of idioms: the rise of mediation; 3 CalculatingCommunity Justice: Mediation in British Columbia; The context: a social field emerges; Community mediation in action

Calculating community justice in British ColumbiaThe 'neutral' mediator?; Community mediation: a postmodern idiom?; 4 The Critics Respond: Dark Shadows ofCourtroom Justice; Calculations as ideology: control through consensus; The structural logic of community mediation; Aporias in the early critics' discourse; 5 Redrawing Critical



Lines of Enquiry: Foucault, Power andCommunity Mediation; Fitzpatrick: taking community justice seriously; Interpreting Foucault: methodological precautions; A redrawn map: Foucault, criticism and community mediation; Can Foucault take community mediation seriously?

6 Governing Disputes: Mediating Between Individuals, Selves andCommunitiesCommunity mediation and pastoral power; Visions of community; Individual, disputing selves; Integrating community, individuals and selves; 7 Governmentalisingthe State: Intersecting Political Rationalities; The sovereign-law model; Law and the identity of community mediation; Community mediation and the law; The symbioses of mutual constitution: 'remote control'; Community mediation and the future: dangers, resistance and strategic engagement; The promise: an alternative politics of dispute resolution

In lieu of a conclusionNotes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Suppose you have a dispute with your neighbour, and wish to secure redress for losses incurred. How might the issue be resolved? Is it worth the cost and time delay to take the issue to court? Or is there some other approach? Over the past few decades a range of alternative, dispute resolution programmes have emerged to settle conflicts informally, outside the courtroom. Drawing on real life experiences of community mediation practices in British Columbia, Canada, the author explores informal justice as an event rendered possible by the fragmentation of justice under postmodern conditions. He