Local Space, Global Life(English, Hardcover, Eslava Luis)

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Local Space, Global Life(English, Hardcover, Eslava Luis) is written by Eslava Luis and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1107092124 (ISBN 10) and 9781107092129 (ISBN 13).

Local Space, Global Life engages with the expansive, ground-level and intertwined operations of international law and the development project by discussing the current international focus on local jurisdictions. Since the mid-1980s, and through the discourse of decentralization, municipalities and cities in emerging nations have become the preferred spaces in which to promote global ideals of human, economic and environmental development. Through an ethnographic study of Bogota's recent development experience and the city's changing relation to its illegal neighbourhoods, Luis Eslava interrogates this rationale and exposes the contradictions involved in the international turn to the local. Attentive to historical and current transformations, norms and praxis, and both ideology and materiality, he provides an innovative reading of the nature of international law and the development project, and reveals their impact on local spaces and lives at the urban periphery of today's world order.