Tag: constitutional ethnography
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I-CONnect Symposium – Peopling Constitutional Law: Revisiting ‘Constitutional Ethnography’ in the Twenty-First Century – Part IX. Protocols and Rights: Northern Ireland’s Constitutional Conundrums.
—Neil Nory Kaplan-Kelly, University of California -Irvine The main question I wish to pose is both empirical and practical: what sites and people should we be engaging ethnographically to understand constitutions, ethnography, ethnographies of constitutions and constitutional ethnographies? Put simply, I’m asking how should we as scholars do our work and where can we learn…
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I-CONnect Symposium – Peopling Constitutional Law: Revisiting ‘Constitutional Ethnography’ in the Twenty-First Century – Part VII. Rhetoric and “Constitutional ethnography”. Interdisciplinary perspectives panel
[Editor’s Note: I-CONnect is pleased to feature a symposium on Constitutional Ethnography. This is the seventh entry of the symposium, which was kindly organized by Deepa Das Acevedo. The introduction is available here]. —Marianne Constable, University of Alabama. Decades ago, U.S. political scientist and administrative law professor Martin Shapiro advised his students to study “any court…
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I-CONnect Symposium – Peopling Constitutional Law: Revisiting ‘Constitutional Ethnography’ in the Twenty-First Century – Part VI. Comments on Constitutional Ethnography
[Editor’s Note: I-CONnect is pleased to feature a symposium on Constitutional Ethnography. This is the sixth entry of the symposium, which was kindly organized by Deepa Das Acevedo. The introduction is available here]. —John Conley, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Revisiting Constitutional Ethnography eighteen years after its publication has prompted me to think about…
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I-CONnect Symposium – Peopling Constitutional Law: Revisiting ‘Constitutional Ethnography’ in the Twenty-First Century – Part V. Constitutional Ethnography for Beginners
—David S. Law, University of Virginia School of Law Ethnographic approaches are not as widely practiced among constitutional scholars as they probably should be. Some may harbor perfectly reasonable doubts about the relevance and accessibility of such approaches. There are a number of basic questions that constitutional scholars might fairly ask themselves: “Why should I…
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I-CONnect Symposium – Peopling Constitutional Law: Revisiting ‘Constitutional Ethnography’ in the Twenty-First Century – Part IV. Where is a Constitution?
Anya Bernstein, Professor of Anthropology, University of Connecticut In her timely keynote to this symposium, Kim Lane Scheppele notes that “constitutionalism hinges on its being taken for real and taken for granted across a wide swath of the population.” To understand the counter-constitutional movements she talks about, we also need an account of how…
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I-CONnect Symposium – Peopling Constitutional Law: Revisiting ‘Constitutional Ethnography’ in the Twenty-First Century – Part III. Ethnographic Encounters with Brazil’s Constitutions
—Jeffrey Omari, Northern Illinois University, School of Law Even after transitioning to a constitutional democracy at the end of its military dictatorship in the mid 1980s, Brazil has remained a country with a deep history of socioeconomic inequality. Indeed, during their control of the presidency from January 2003 through August 2016, a primary aim of…
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I-CONnect Symposium – Peopling Constitutional Law: Revisiting ‘Constitutional Ethnography’ in the Twenty-First Century- Part II- Counter-Constitutional Ethnography
—Kim Lane Scheppele, Princeton University In normal times, most people do not think about constitutions very much. The existence of the institutions of state, their basic rules of operation, the methods for filling official vacancies and the things that the state should not do to its citizens simply seem obvious and work as expected.
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A Call to Constituent-Power Ethnography
—João Vitor Cardoso, Universidad de Chile** [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more on our 2023 columnists, see here.] That ethnography is no longer the exclusive province of anthropology is undisputed. Within a wide range of disciplines that had taken ethnographic turns, there figures what Kim Lane Scheppele defines as “constitutional…
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I-CONnect Symposium – Peopling Constitutional Law: Revisiting ‘Constitutional Ethnography’ in the Twenty-First Century
—Deepa Das Acevedo, Associate Professor of Law, University of Alabama School of Law On October 14, 2022, the University of Alabama School of Law hosted a symposium centered on “constitutional ethnography”—a term coined almost twenty years ago by Kim Lane Scheppele to describe “the study of the central legal elements of politics using methods that…