Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel
Beyond Democratic Tolerance: Witch Killings in Timor-Leste
Newly democratising states experience challenges in reconciling 'traditional' or 'customary' dispute resolution practices with newly established state-based legal systems based on the rule of law. For Timor-Leste, these tensions are pronounced in continuing debates concerning the killing or injuring of women accused of witchcraft. Defences of extrajudicial punishments tend to conflate democracy with local support and fail to deal with the key institutions of democratic systems, including the rule of law, political equality, and civil rights. In Timor-Leste's case, where equality and social rights were incorporated into the Constitution as fundamental governmental obligations, localised extrajudicial punishments threaten internal and external state legitimacy and highlight the difficulties of ensuring the primacy of state-based institutions. Extrajudicial punishments challenge Timor-Leste's capacity to consolidate new liberal democratic political institutions. (author's abstract)
- ISSN
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1868-1034
- Umfang
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Seite(n): 37-64
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Anmerkungen
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Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
- Erschienen in
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Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 34(3)
- Thema
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Staatsformen und Regierungssysteme
Soziologie, Anthropologie
Kriminalsoziologie, Rechtssoziologie, Kriminologie
Soziologie von Gesamtgesellschaften
Staat, staatliche Organisationsformen
Demokratisierung
Timor-Leste
Rechtsordnung
Rechtsstaat
Rechtsbewusstsein
politisches Bewusstsein
Gewalt
Selbstjustiz
Strafe
Wert
traditionelle Kultur
traditionelle Gesellschaft
Frau
Hexenverfolgung
Menschenrechte
Südostasien
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (wer)
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Strating, Rebecca
Edmondson, Beth
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
- (wo)
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Deutschland
- (wann)
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2015
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:gbv:18-4-9050
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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21.06.2024, 16:27 MESZ
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Objekttyp
- Zeitschriftenartikel
Beteiligte
- Strating, Rebecca
- Edmondson, Beth
Entstanden
- 2015