{"product_id":"9781531512446-life-in-the-cracks","title":"Life in the Cracks","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLaw, Violence, and Resistance in Haiti\u003cbr\u003eA rich account of what it means to live with law amid its failures.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLife in the Cracks\u003c\/i\u003e is a rich ethnographic portrait of law, violence, and resistance in Haiti. In a contemporary context marked by international interference, global capitalism, and state collapse, Haitians face complex challenges that are largely ignored and misunderstood. By examining the most unexpected inflections of ordinary life, \u003ci\u003eLife in the Cracks\u003c\/i\u003e offers a well-grounded account of people’s experience of law in their lives. The book describes what it means to endure violence partly engendered by the law, and thus to live up to one’s disappointment with the law itself. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy not taking for granted the places where the law appears, \u003ci\u003eLife in the Cracks\u003c\/i\u003e asks legal anthropology to confront questions beyond law-making and law-application, dispute resolution, and social order. In everyday life’s textures of messy subtleties and contradictory movements that are never reconciled, \u003ci\u003eLife in the Cracks\u003c\/i\u003e reconsiders the place of law in human affairs. Motta reimagines how people cope with their disillusionments by reinventing relationships with each other. What had appeared questions of law and justice turn out to be questions of life and death.  As life resists annihilation, Motta shows, many Haitians have found ways to breathe new life into the present and make the future worth fighting for.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLife in the Cracks: Law, Violence, and Resistance in Haiti \u003ci\u003eis available from the publisher on an open-access basis.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56758259876214,"sku":"9781531512446","price":132.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_38806770.jpg?v=1764368493","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781531512446-life-in-the-cracks","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}