Bertram Turner
Biographic Data
| ID | 3670902 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bertram Turner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bertram |
| FAMILY NAME | Turner |
| SIGNATURE | TURNER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1235-8758 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Introduction to special issue: Keebet von Benda-Beckmann, intellectual legacy
Failure to care despite legal personhood for the environment
Legal Pluralism and Science and Technology Studies: Exploring Sources of the Legal Pluriverse
In introducing the contributions to this special section, we explore the links between social and juridical concepts of normativity and science and technology. We follow the Legal Pluralism challenge to the notion of state law as the sole source of normative order and point to how technological transformation creates a pluralistic legal universe that takes on new shapes under conditions of globalization. We promote a science and technology studie…
Legal Pluralism in Infrastructural Designs: Alternative Supply Chains in the Moroccan Argan Oil Export
This article explores an emergent assemblage in which material semiotics interacts with legal plurality. It is argued that infrastructural designs constitute specific configurations of such assemblages. While research on infrastructure is proliferating in anthropology and STS, law as a constitutive component in all its forms and manifestations has not yet been sufficiently examined from this perspective. Infrastructures enact the ordering of thei…
Dynamics of Identification and Conflict: Anthropological Encounters
Dealing with the dynamics of identification and conflict, this book uses theoretical orientations ranging from political ecology to rational choice theory, interpretive approaches, Marxism and multiscalar analysis. Case studies set in Africa, Europe and Central Asia are grouped in three sections devoted to pastoralism, identity and migration. What connects all of these anthropological explorations is a close focus on processes of identification a…
Legal pluralism, social theory, and the state
Legal pluralism has seen a marked rise in interest since the turn of the century. While long rejected in legal studies, legal pluralism is now widely accepted, not least in light of the broad range of perspectives on the state it has sought to interpret and it has produced. A crucial change could be noted in the 1970s, when legal anthropologists began to demonstrate the applicability of this term, and not just in anthropological thinking about la…
On Retaliation: Towards an Interdisciplinary Understanding of a Basic Human Condition
Permutations of Order: Religion and Law As Contested Sovereignties
Supply-chain legal pluralism: Normativity as constitutive of chain infrastructure in the Moroccan argan oil supply chain
This article foregrounds the variety and intertwining of legal components that inform the performance of global supply chains. It sheds light on the complexities of normative entanglements that are only cursorily addressed in conventional analyses of chain normativity, which can be divided into roughly three approaches: the first one addresses “voluntary” or “private” standards that are subsumed under the heading of “corporate social responsibili…
Technologies of truth finding: Provision of evidence in local dealings with crime and deviance in rural Morocco
Cet article porte sur les technologies de découverte de la vérité et sur l'établissement de la preuve s'agissant de déviances habituelles au niveau villageois (Maroc rural). Il existe une multitude d'institutions et d'individus qui semblent liés, à des degrés divers, au système juridique formel et à l'État. Dans cet article, une institution en particulier - celle du juge de proximité, le hakim - occupe un rôle central. Créée dans les années 1970 …
Exploring avenues of research in legal pluralism: Forward-looking perspectives in the work of Franz von Benda-Beckmann
This introduction to the special issue in commemoration of Franz von Benda-Beckmann revisits central theses in his intellectual oeuvre, which spans more than 45 years. Some of his publications long ago acquired the status of classics in the field of legal anthropology and studies in legal pluralism. This article asks how we can profit from his uncanny ability to identify the next decisive problems and emerging challenges to the analysis of law in…
Neoliberal Politics of Resource Extraction: Moroccan Argan Oil
This article addresses the intertwining and co-production of normative and technological strands in the politics of natural resource extraction. It explores how the integration of a forest resource in the global economy by means of normative and technological appropriation is associated with the delegation of responsibility for its conservation and the sustainability of its extraction management to local-use rights holders. In the process, such e…
Religion in Disputes: Pervasiveness of Religious Normativity in Disputing Processes
Order and Disorder: Anthropological Perspectives
Disorder and instability are matters of continuing public concern. Terrorism, as a threat to global order, has been added to preoccupations with political unrest, deviance and crime. Such considerations have prompted the return to the classic anthropological issues of order and disorder. Examining order within the political and legal spheres and in contrasting local settings, the papers in this volume highlight its complex and contested nature. E…
Competing Global Players in Rural Morocco: Upgrading Legal Arenas
This paper analyses the socio-legal consequences of the competition between different transnational actors for the opportunity to implement their respective legal standards in a plural legal constellation in rural Morocco. The empirical data presented here refer to a rural community located in the centre of the Souss region in South West Morocco. The thesis in this paper is that focussing on the competition between global players for local contro…
Neoliberal Politics of Resource Extraction: Moroccan Argan Oil
This article addresses the intertwining and co-production of normative and technological strands in the politics of natural resource extraction. It explores how the integration of a forest resource in the global economy by means of normative and technological appropriation is associated with the delegation of responsibility for its conservation and the sustainability of its extraction management to local-use rights holders. In the process, such e…
Legal Pluralism and Science and Technology Studies: Exploring Sources of the Legal Pluriverse
In introducing the contributions to this special section, we explore the links between social and juridical concepts of normativity and science and technology. We follow the Legal Pluralism challenge to the notion of state law as the sole source of normative order and point to how technological transformation creates a pluralistic legal universe that takes on new shapes under conditions of globalization. We promote a science and technology studie…
Legal Pluralism in Infrastructural Designs: Alternative Supply Chains in the Moroccan Argan Oil Export
This article explores an emergent assemblage in which material semiotics interacts with legal plurality. It is argued that infrastructural designs constitute specific configurations of such assemblages. While research on infrastructure is proliferating in anthropology and STS, law as a constitutive component in all its forms and manifestations has not yet been sufficiently examined from this perspective. Infrastructures enact the ordering of thei…
Failure to care despite legal personhood for the environment
Competing Global Players in Rural Morocco: Upgrading Legal Arenas
This paper analyses the socio-legal consequences of the competition between different transnational actors for the opportunity to implement their respective legal standards in a plural legal constellation in rural Morocco. The empirical data presented here refer to a rural community located in the centre of the Souss region in South West Morocco. The thesis in this paper is that focussing on the competition between global players for local contro…
Order and Disorder: Anthropological Perspectives
Disorder and instability are matters of continuing public concern. Terrorism, as a threat to global order, has been added to preoccupations with political unrest, deviance and crime. Such considerations have prompted the return to the classic anthropological issues of order and disorder. Examining order within the political and legal spheres and in contrasting local settings, the papers in this volume highlight its complex and contested nature. E…
Religion in Disputes: Pervasiveness of Religious Normativity in Disputing Processes
Neoliberal Politics of Resource Extraction: Moroccan Argan Oil
This article addresses the intertwining and co-production of normative and technological strands in the politics of natural resource extraction. It explores how the integration of a forest resource in the global economy by means of normative and technological appropriation is associated with the delegation of responsibility for its conservation and the sustainability of its extraction management to local-use rights holders. In the process, such e…
Exploring avenues of research in legal pluralism: Forward-looking perspectives in the work of Franz von Benda-Beckmann
This introduction to the special issue in commemoration of Franz von Benda-Beckmann revisits central theses in his intellectual oeuvre, which spans more than 45 years. Some of his publications long ago acquired the status of classics in the field of legal anthropology and studies in legal pluralism. This article asks how we can profit from his uncanny ability to identify the next decisive problems and emerging challenges to the analysis of law in…
Permutations of Order: Religion and Law As Contested Sovereignties
Supply-chain legal pluralism: Normativity as constitutive of chain infrastructure in the Moroccan argan oil supply chain
This article foregrounds the variety and intertwining of legal components that inform the performance of global supply chains. It sheds light on the complexities of normative entanglements that are only cursorily addressed in conventional analyses of chain normativity, which can be divided into roughly three approaches: the first one addresses “voluntary” or “private” standards that are subsumed under the heading of “corporate social responsibili…
Technologies of truth finding: Provision of evidence in local dealings with crime and deviance in rural Morocco
Cet article porte sur les technologies de découverte de la vérité et sur l'établissement de la preuve s'agissant de déviances habituelles au niveau villageois (Maroc rural). Il existe une multitude d'institutions et d'individus qui semblent liés, à des degrés divers, au système juridique formel et à l'État. Dans cet article, une institution en particulier - celle du juge de proximité, le hakim - occupe un rôle central. Créée dans les années 1970 …
On Retaliation: Towards an Interdisciplinary Understanding of a Basic Human Condition
Legal pluralism, social theory, and the state
Legal pluralism has seen a marked rise in interest since the turn of the century. While long rejected in legal studies, legal pluralism is now widely accepted, not least in light of the broad range of perspectives on the state it has sought to interpret and it has produced. A crucial change could be noted in the 1970s, when legal anthropologists began to demonstrate the applicability of this term, and not just in anthropological thinking about la…
Dynamics of Identification and Conflict: Anthropological Encounters
Dealing with the dynamics of identification and conflict, this book uses theoretical orientations ranging from political ecology to rational choice theory, interpretive approaches, Marxism and multiscalar analysis. Case studies set in Africa, Europe and Central Asia are grouped in three sections devoted to pastoralism, identity and migration. What connects all of these anthropological explorations is a close focus on processes of identification a…
Legal Pluralism and Science and Technology Studies: Exploring Sources of the Legal Pluriverse
In introducing the contributions to this special section, we explore the links between social and juridical concepts of normativity and science and technology. We follow the Legal Pluralism challenge to the notion of state law as the sole source of normative order and point to how technological transformation creates a pluralistic legal universe that takes on new shapes under conditions of globalization. We promote a science and technology studie…
Legal Pluralism in Infrastructural Designs: Alternative Supply Chains in the Moroccan Argan Oil Export
This article explores an emergent assemblage in which material semiotics interacts with legal plurality. It is argued that infrastructural designs constitute specific configurations of such assemblages. While research on infrastructure is proliferating in anthropology and STS, law as a constitutive component in all its forms and manifestations has not yet been sufficiently examined from this perspective. Infrastructures enact the ordering of thei…
Introduction to special issue: Keebet von Benda-Beckmann, intellectual legacy
Failure to care despite legal personhood for the environment
Political science (12 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Legal pluralism (7 works) · Legal realism (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Legal research (5 works)