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CHAPTER SIX - Challenges to Embedding

Legal Legibility

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2023

Whitney K. Taylor
Whitney K. Taylor
Affiliation:
San Francisco State University
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Summary

Chapter 6 examines the limits of legal legibility, or what – and whose – problems are legible to the law, and who gets left behind. The chapter looks to the community called Agua Blanca in the western part of Colombia. There, the most visible impact of the 1991 Constitution seems to be the conversion of rights promises into paperwork. While residents of Agua Blanca still use the tutela procedure, accepting the idea that filing tutela claims as what one has to do to try to gain access to services, they see the 1991 Constitution as largely irrelevant to their lives, which are instead constrained by violence and marginality.

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povertymarginalitylimits of liberal legalismarmed conflictColombia
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The Social Constitution
Embedding Social Rights Through Legal Mobilization
 , pp. 121 - 143
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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