A JUSTICE OF ACCESS: AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL VIEW ON ACCESS TO JUSTICE IN A CAMPONESE COMMUNITY
Access to justice; Share capital; Citizenship; Farmer; Anthropology of Law.
The gigantic latent discrepancy in the twentieth century between civil justice and
social justice led the legal academy to flexibilize its normativist guidelines by
understanding the need to carry out empirical investigations that identified the
many barriers to access to justice faced by different categories of social actors.
In the case of rural or peasant communities, due to their geographic, ethnic and
social specificities, such investigations were even more necessary, so that the
close contact that allowed an ethnographic approach to this category was
fundamental in identifying these obstacles with a view to proposing practical
suggestions for resolving the issue of access to justice, in order to make the entry
and progress of a judicial process more democratic and fair. Therefore, what I
propose in the present work is an anthropological investigation aimed at
identifying how a rural community in the south of Bahia is related to the right of
access to justice.