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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 June 2023

Deval Desai
Deval Desai
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University of Edinburgh

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Expert Ignorance
The Law and Politics of Rule of Law Reform
 , pp. vii - ix
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023
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Contents

  1. List of Figures

  2. List of Tables

  3. Acknowledgements

  4. In Lieu of an Abstract

  5. Executive Summary

  6. Table of Cases

  7. List of Abbreviations

  8. 1Introduction

    1. 1.1From Disenchanted to Self-Denying Expertise

    2. 1.2Expert Ignorance

    3. 1.3Argument

    4. 1.4Organisation of the Book

  9. 2Ignorance and the Practice of Rule of Law Reform

    1. 2.1Introduction: Thomasistic Critique

    2. 2.2Genres of Critique of Rule of Law Reform

    3. 2.3The Anxious Rule of Law Reformer

    4. 2.4Counterpoints

    5. 2.5Disordering Rule of Law Reform

    6. 2.6A Note on Style and Form

  10. 3Projecting the Rule of Law

    1. 3.1Introduction

      1. 3.1.1Context

    2. 3.2Organisational Sociology

      1. 3.2.1The Project

      2. 3.2.2Analysis

    3. 3.3Critical Discourse Analysis

      1. 3.3.1Context

      2. 3.3.2Ambiguity in the Law

      3. 3.3.3Discourses of Conflict, Development, and Governance in ADAs

      4. 3.3.4Analysis: Re-Contextualising the Contextualisation of ADAs in Country

    4. 3.4Ethnography of Practices

      1. 3.4.1Boarding

      2. 3.4.2On-Board

      3. 3.4.3Boardroom

      4. 3.4.4Back-Room

      5. 3.4.5Back-and-Forth

      6. 3.4.6Trip Report

    5. 3.5Analysing the Project

    6. 3.6Conclusion

  11. 4Performing the Rule of Law

    1. 4.1Introduction: Presenting Expert Ignorance

    2. 4.2Theory: Shadows of a Fantasy of Attaining the Sublime

      1. 4.2.1The Sublime

      2. 4.2.2Fantasy

      3. 4.2.3Shadow

    3. 4.3Method: To Act, to Do, to Perform

      1. 4.3.1Structural Performance Analysis and Phenomenologies of Performance

      2. 4.3.2Stanislavski’s System

      3. 4.3.3Style

    4. 4.4Performing the Project: Staging Rules and Regulations

      1. 4.4.1Ohio Impromptu

      2. 4.4.2The Project in Two Scenes

      3. 4.4.3Analysis of the Action

    5. 4.5Performing the Workshop: Painting the Rule of Law by Numbers

      1. 4.5.1Introduction

      2. 4.5.2The Archbishop’s Ceiling

      3. 4.5.3Plotting Implementation

      4. 4.5.4Analysis

    6. 4.6Denouement

  12. 5Law and Politics of Rule of Law Performances

    1. 5.1Interlude: Measure for Measure, Rule of Law Reformers, and ‘the Duke of Dark Corners’

    2. 5.2The Legal and Political Effects of Rule of Law Reform

      1. 5.2.1Ignorance Work

      2. 5.2.2Implementation Work

      3. 5.2.3Action as Ignorance and Implementation; Reform as Performance

    3. 5.3Conclusion

  13. 6Historicising Rule of Law Performances

    1. 6.1Rule of Law Reform: A History of Many Histories

    2. 6.2From a Sociology of Rule of Law Reform to Self-Denying Rule of Law Reformers

    3. 6.3A History of the Free-Floating Institutional Reformer

    4. 6.4Conclusion

  14. 7The Sociology of Rule of Law Performers

    1. 7.1Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation

    2. 7.2Reform and the Social Organisation of Reformers

    3. 7.3Conclusion

  15. 8Conclusion

    1. 8.1Summary of the Argument

    2. 8.2Taking the Measure of Expert Ignorance: From Rule of Law Reform to Governance?

    3. 8.3Interlude: Brexit, Ignorans, and Ignorandum

    4. 8.4Finding Expert Ignorance Elsewhere

    5. 8.5The Politics of Critical Method

  16. Bibliography

  17. Index

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