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Legal mobilisation, legal scepticism and the limits of ‘lawfare’: between law and politics in union activism in Botswana
The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law Pub Date : 2021-07-30 , DOI: 10.1080/07329113.2021.1949898
Pnina Werbner 1
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ABSTRACT

Against legal scepticism which constructs litigations as negative or useless ‘lawfare’, this article argues for the need to recognise that taking government to court is part of a wider strategy of social mobilisation and campaigns for social justice, as others have also claimed. Legal mobilisation during a public sector strike in Botswana in 2011 was, the paper argues, only one strategic part of a more comprehensive campaign to call on government to pay its workers a living wage. The paper calls for anthropology to re-examine some of its assumptions about the role of the law in postcolonial nations. Despite the possibility that judges may be biased or vulnerable to political influence, and despite the courts’ restricted ability to implement their judgements - it is nevertheless the case that ethics, morality and the law, when mobilised alongside concerted political and civic activism, may play a critical role in advancing the cause of citizens’ rights against an apparently all-powerful government.



中文翻译:

法律动员、法律怀疑和“法律”的限制:博茨瓦纳工会活动中的法律与政治之间

摘要

反对将诉讼构建为消极或无用的“法律”的法律怀疑论,本文认为有必要承认,正如其他人所声称的那样,将政府告上法庭是更广泛的社会动员和社会正义运动战略的一部分。该报认为,2011 年博茨瓦纳公共部门罢工期间的法律动员只是呼吁政府向其工人支付生活工资的更全面运动的一个战略部分。该论文呼吁人类学重新审视其关于法律在后殖民国家中的作用的一些假设。尽管法官可能存在偏见或容易受到政治影响,尽管法院执行其判决的能力有限——但道德、道德和法律、

更新日期:2021-07-30
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