This chapter analyses the processes of juridification whereby indigenous people’s social movements stake their rights claims to greater autonomy, not simply or principally by resorting to the tribunals but by mimicking the state and constituting alternative “(para)-legalities”. More broadly, it seeks to reflect on the relationship between dominant legal cultures and social movement engagements with legality within a broader context of legal pluralism.
(2011) “Legal Cultures in the (Un)Rule of Law: Indigenous Rights and Juridification in Guatemala,” (re-print of part of original chapter) in Lawrence M. Friedman, Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo, y Manuel A. Gómez (eds.), Law in Many Societies. A Reader, Stanford CA: Stanford University Press: 152-8. ISBN: 9780804763738