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Book Chapter | 2018
Challenging Male Dominance in Norm-Making in Contexts of Legal Pluralism: Insights from the Andes
in uth Rubio-Marín and Will Kymlicka : Gender Parity and Multicultural Feminism: Towards a New Synthesis. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press

Book Chapter | 2013
Nordic Multiculturalism: Commonalities and Differences
The five Nordic countries may be thought of as quite similar in many ways so that we would expect commonalities rather than differences among them. In order to test this...
in Debating Multiculturalism in the Nordic Welfare States.

Book | 2013
Latin American Constitutionalism (1810-2010): The Engine Room of the Constitution
Latin America possesses an enormously rich constitutional history, one that has only recently become the subject of scholarly inquiry. As noted legal theorist Roberto Gargarella contends, contemporary constitutional and political...
Oxford: Oxford University Press 298 p.

Journal Article | 2011
Multiculturalism and pluralism in secular society: Individual or collective rights?
This paper discusses multiculturalism in view of collectivistic cultural structures in immigrant communities. Women in religious minority communities are ruled according to collectivistic structures when it comes to marriage, divorce,...
in Ars Disputandi : The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion vol. 5 pp. 147-163

Journal Article | 2011
'Emancipation' or 'regulation'? Law, globalization and indigenous peoples' rights in post-war Guatemala.
During the last two decades processes of legal globalization have led to the increasing codification of the collective rights of indigenous peoples. In Latin America this shift towards 'codifying culture'...
in Economy and Society vol. 40 no. 2 pp. 239-265

Journal Article | 2011
Building Mayan authority and autonomy: The "recovery" of indigenous law in post-peace Guatemala
Across Latin America, debates and practice around indigenous law provide a window on shifting relations between indigenous movements, states, and international actors. In Guatemala, the practice of indigenous law is...
in Studies in Law, Politics, and Society vol. 55 pp. 43-75

Book Chapter | 2010
Multiculturalism and religious legislation in Sweden
In view of the growing influence of religion in public life on the national and international scenes, Muslim Diaspora in the West constitutes a timely contribution to scholarly debates and...
in Haydeh Moghissi and Halleh Ghorashi, eds.: Muslim diaspora in the West. Negotiating gender, home and belonging. Surrey/Burlington: Ashgate pp.55-72

Journal Article | 2009
Democratizing Islam and Islamizing democracy: An inquiry into Hasan al-Turabi's conception of Shura in light of Western democratic theory
This article explores Hasan al-Turabi’s conception of democracy with particular focus on the role and rights of non-Muslims. This is done through a qualitative analysis of his writings as well...
in Nordic Journal of Human Rights vol.27 no.3 pp. 313-329

Book Chapter | 2008
Constitutionalism in an Insurgent State: Rethinking Legal Empowerment of the Poor in a Divided Bolivia
With the world record in coup d'états[i] and a modern history of revolution and repeated uprisings it can also too easy to dismiss Bolivia not only as a recent state...
in Dan Banik: Rights and Legal Empowerment in Eradicating Poverty . Ashgate

Journal Article | 2008
Beyond the Permitted Indian? Bolivia and Guatemala in an Age of Neoliberal Developmentalism
This paper outlines and discusses the contrasting histories of inclusion and contestation associated with the introduction of neoliberal and multicultural policies in Bolivia and Guatemala. In drawing out and discussing...
Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies vol. 3 no. 1 March 2008 pp 33-59

Book Review | 2007
Review of Nancy Postero´s "Now We Are Citizens: Indigenous Politics in Post-multicultural Bolivia"
in Journal of Latin American Studies vol. November 39 no. 4