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Norms beyond Empire seeks to rethink the relationship between law and empire by emphasizing local normative production. Its ten chapters explore normative production by focusing on case studies from the Iberian empires in China, India, Japan, and the Philippines.

Este artículo intenta explicar el fenómeno de desmovilización vivido en Chile a partir del retorno de la democracia en 1990. Este estudio propone que la desmovilización responde a una reorganización de los actores a partir de la transición. El estudio se basa en un análisis de redes organizacionales elaboradas a partir de eventos y campañas de protesta para los años 1977-1980 y 1990-1991. Las conclusiones indican que actores importantes como la Iglesia, los sindicatos nacionales y los partidos políticos, retiran sistemáticamente sus apoyos políticos o los manifestantes a partir del año 1990.

Rumour Propagation as a Form of Social Control. A Case from Dictatorial Chile The following article discusses the role of media and civilian organisations in downplaying the role of rumour propagation in the Chilean dictatorship. After outright repression failed to control popular unrest during the national protests that took place between 1983 and 1984, the military regime attempted to keep people inside their homes by playing on their fears and prejudices. We focus here on an episode that occurred in September 1983, when residents of a working class neighbourhood were led to believe that they would be attacked by the populace of the surrounding area. After the protest was over, the actions of state agents and unknown civilians in propagating the rumour were publicised through the opposition press and widely condemned by relevant national figures. In the end, the effectiveness of this sort of social control by the military government was greatly jeopardised by the existence of relatively strong independent media and civil organisations with considerable resources for gathering and verifying information. In this article, we not only discuss how the rumour was propagated and why it worked, but also consider the question why rumour placement as a policing strategy finally failed to produce its intended effects in the late dictatorial period.

Our modern legal system is based on the principle of
equality. But is equality perhaps not also a concept that
inadequately describes the complexity of normative orders?
Highly differentiated societies with a multitude of collective
identities and functional rationalities are in a permanent
state of tension with this legal postulate. The contributions
to this volume examine how this tension has developed in
Europe and Latin America over the last 200 years