Pluralismo Jurídico y Emancipación. Análisis de una Experiencia Latinoamericana

Abstract

This article intends to show how the concepts of emancipation and legal pluralism relate to each other. These concepts play a central role in the political agenda projected by some Latin American legal scholars. There is a certain hope that the proper comprehension of the different manifestations of legal pluralism may perhaps provide some of the elements needed for the emancipation of the oppressed people. But, since the concept of legal pluralism may relate to many different situations, it is still not clear that every manifestation of legal pluralism can show the way to emancipation. In this opportunity, the processes of informal urbanization in Latin America are the subject of examination. The normative orders which are developed in these urban areas for the regulation of property seem to be an adequate field of study in order to understand how the manifestations of legal pluralism can be fruitful for the political agenda of the Latin American critical legal studies.