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Law and the Pragmatics of Inclusion: Governing Domestic Violence in Trinidad and Tobago
Author(s) -
LazarusBlack Mindie
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.2001.28.2.388
Subject(s) - redress , domestic violence , agency (philosophy) , sociology , inclusion (mineral) , pragmatics , hegemony , power (physics) , meaning (existential) , law , gender studies , political science , kinship , criminology , poison control , social science , suicide prevention , psychology , politics , medicine , linguistics , philosophy , physics , environmental health , quantum mechanics , psychotherapist
In this article, I demonstrate some of the complexities of the "pragmatics of inclusion" that ensue when subordinated people first struggle to gain access to hegemonic institutions and then challenge those institutions to maintain their inclusion. In presenting these findings, I reconsider the meaning of agency for persons seeking legal redress from domestic abuse in Trinidad and reassess the power and limitations of domestic violence law as a symbol and instrument for social change, [domestic violence law, agency, legal processes, kinship and gender ideologies, Caribbean]