Submitted by Ricardo Cedraz Duque Moliterno (ricardo.moliterno@uefs.br) on 2015-09-16T22:16:27Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Disserta??o_CHINTAMANI_SANTANA.pdf: 1037009 bytes, checksum: 2b17cf6d8a830a8ab05d78e64719996c (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-16T22:16:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Disserta??o_CHINTAMANI_SANTANA.pdf: 1037009 bytes, checksum: 2b17cf6d8a830a8ab05d78e64719996c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-08-28 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior - CAPES / This work has as its goal study the conflicts in the countryside, specially the fight involving ownership and propety of land and its individuals in the initial two decades of the 20th century, in Feira de Santana. We used as sources the local newspapers and mainly the processes of damage crime. Our approach was built in dialog with theoric and methodologic questions by E.P. Thompson in Whigs and Hunters, for whom the Law can be understod as a fighting arena, where the law can be seem as a way by which other social conflicts take place. So, we seek to present some delimitations and specifications in research territory, delineate the social and ethinic profile of countryside dwellers; debate family and work relationships,; point what was produced in the countrisde; investigate the existence of tension in the day-by-day life of this individuals marked by the conflicts of notions of common use and private apropriation. We identified the existence of different conceptions of right to the land that pervade the juridical partners, one based in the "soft and pacific" posse and other in the evidential right. We examinate how from the querell the complicated social relations detaches and how they constituted communitary life, being part of the conflicts themselves, specially the fight for land. By examining the countryside and their individuals we advanced into a little explored territory, the researches about Feira de Santana in this phase being more intensely dedicated to the urban part. / O presente trabalho tem por objetivo estudar os conflitos no campo, em especial a luta em torno da posse e propriedade da terra e seus sujeitos nas duas primeiras d?cadas do s?culo XX, em Feira de Santana. Utilizamos como fontes os jornais locais e principalmente os processos crime dano. Nossa abordagem foi constru?da em di?logo com as quest?es te?ricas e metodol?gicas pautadas por E. P. Thompson em Senhores e Ca?adores, para quem o direito pode ser compreendido como uma arena de luta, onde a lei pode ser vista como o meio por onde outros conflitos sociais t?m se travado. Deste modo, procuramos apresentar algumas delimita??es e especifica??es do territ?rio da pesquisa, tra?ar o perfil social e ?tnico dos moradores do campo; discutimos as rela??es familiares e de trabalho; apontamos o que era produzido no campo; investigamos a exist?ncias de tens?es no cotidiano desses sujeitos marcados pelos conflitos entre no??es de uso comum e tentativas de apropria??o privada. Identificamos a exist?ncia de diferentes concep??es sobre o direito ? terra que perpassam as pe?as jur?dicas, uma baseada na posse ?mansa e pacifica? e outra no t?tulo comprobat?rio. Examinamos como a partir das querelas se desprendem intricadas rela??es sociais e como estas constitu?am a vida nas comunidades, foram parte importante dos pr?prios conflitos, em especial da luta pela terra. Ao nos debru?armos sobre o campo e seus sujeitos avan?amos por um territ?rio pouco explorado, as pesquisas sobre Feira de Santana neste per?odo dedicaram maior aten??o ao per?metro urbano.

International crimes prosecutions have become more common since 1993, both domestically and at international courts and tribunals. The advance of this norm confronts realist state interests causing debate about the norm's status. Kathryn Sikkink views a norm as cascading when enough states adopt it to cause international influence, without domestic pressure, to procure levels of conformity. This thesis considers the degree of conformity by observing the level of case selection independence to determine whether this norm is cascading. By identifying the jurisdictional and functional elements of case selection independence, I develop a framework for observing the interface between politics and law. While Sikkink errs towards the quantity of international crimes prosecutions, I focus on the quality. This project examines case selection independence at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the Special Court for Sierra Leone and the International Criminal Court, in Uganda. The project considers whether case selection has become more or less independent at these courts - whether the norm of international crimes prosecution has cascaded or contracted. In observing the various case selection independence elements I attempt to explain the observed cascades and contractions at each court. I then consider whether a cascade or contraction occurred during the period of the courts' collective design and function. The research qualitatively observes a cumulative justice contraction. The research observes a combination of factors affecting case selection independence, including shifts in power dynamics between and among weak and powerful states, increasing state sophistication in international court engagement, a shift in jurisdiction triggering actors and forums, and realist state co-option of norm entrepreneurs via endearing explanation of independence-diminishing policies.