GATEKEEPING: DOCUMENTS, LEGAL KNOWLEDGE, AND JUDICIAL AUTHORITY IN CONTEMPORY ARGENTINA

LETICIA BARRERA

PoLAR: The Political and Legal Anthropology Review

American Anthropological Association- Wiley

Lugar: Malden, MA; Año: 2018 vol. 41 p. 90 - 107

1555-2934

This article addresses the question of judicial authority by examining the mundane practices of legal knowledge-making that unfold within the Argentine Supreme Court of Justice. Building on a larger ethnographic study of the Court in the aftermath of the country?s 2001-2002 crisis, the essay focuses on the particular forms and documentary practices the tribunal uses to review only selected cases and discards most without explanation. This act of ?gatekeeping? (Yngvesson 1998) sheds light on the tensions that exist among different imaginaries of judicial adjudication and the Court?s role in the native legal field. In this context, I argue that exclusion operates not only as a tool of docket management and control, but also as a way to shape judicial authority and legitimacy in contemporary Argentina. Esta revista se encuentra indizada en las siguientes bases (en orden alfabético): Academic Search (EBSCO Publishing), Academic Search Alumni Edition (EBSCO Publishing), Anthropological Index (Royal Anthropological Institute), Anthropological Literature (Harvard University), Current Contents: Social & Behavioral Sciences (Thomson Reuters), ERIH: European Reference Index for the Humanities (European Science Foundation), IBSS: International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (ProQuest), International Political Science Abstracts (IPSA), RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (RILM)SCOPUS (Elsevier), Social Sciences Citation Index (Thomson Reuters)Sociological Abstracts (ProQuest), Web of Science (Thomson Reuters)Westlaw (Thomson Reuters), Worldwide Political Sciences Abstracts (ProQuest). (https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/15552934/aims-and-scope/read-full-aims-and-scope) Fecha de última consulta: 22/06/2020