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Tejani, Riaz --- "Distance in law and globalization: armchair anthropology revisited" [2017] ELECD 1612; in Nafziger, A.R. James (ed), "Comparative Law and Anthropology" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017) 491

Book Title: Comparative Law and Anthropology

Editor(s): Nafziger, A.R. James

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781781955178

Section: Chapter 21

Section Title: Distance in law and globalization: armchair anthropology revisited

Author(s): Tejani, Riaz

Number of pages: 18

Abstract/Description:

In this chapter I counterpose Law and Globalization studies with “armchair anthropology” to understand parallels between these disparate fields. I argue that Law and Globalization’s reproduction of armchair approaches may prove dangerous for the non-expert, lay publics of political-economic globalization around the world. In support of this, the chapter first revisits the disciplinary canon known as armchair anthropology. It then turns to the subsequent period in Western anthropology in which the problems of the former were, at least theoretically, rectified. It examines contemporary research in Law and Globalization to ask what trends have emerged and what role they have played in the wider legal academy. Finally, this chapter asks what problems of original armchair anthropology have been reproduced in the field of Law and Globalization and what dangers these may pose to subjects of the contemporary global system.