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Introduction
Authors: Jackson Naomi M. 
Published: March 2022

Abstract
The introduction begins with an overview of the foundations of the academic field of Jewish dance studies. It is meant to acknowledge the incredible work that has been done to 2020 and demonstrate how these efforts inform the Handbook. As part of this discussion an important shift is documented in conceptualizing (and languaging) the field from its inception to the date of publication. Providing the larger contextual frame is critical for understanding the conceptual orientation of the volume. Drawing on this history, the choice of the term “Jewishness” in the title, rather than Judaism or other terminology related to specific Jewish traditions (such as Israeli, Yemenite, Yiddish, and so on), is then explained. The historical record also provides the means for delineating what areas are addressed in the Handbook as well as those that have already been well-covered and consequently not emphasized here. Next, we address the structure of the Handbook and an explanation for its tripartite organization. Finally, we look forward, considering what gaps and questions remain, and our hopes for the future of the field.
Excavating Holocaust History
Authors: Rossen Rebecca 
Published: March 2022

Abstract
In 1994, choreographer Tamar Rogoff created an immersive, site-specific performance in Ivye, Belarus, in a forest surrounding the mass grave where 2,500 Jews (among them her own relatives) were slaughtered in 1942. This chapter considers how Rogoff used dance to excavate her family’s history alongside the submerged history of Ivye’s Jews. Rogoff’s The Ivye Project provides an astute commentary on the emotional and political process by which historical events can be forgotten or concealed. The endeavor also shines a light on the role that dance and performance can play in the representation and transmission of Jewish history and memory. Interweaving performance, community engagement, archival research, and oral history, Rogoff’s Ivye Project transcended time, space, and national borders to stage life, loss and, ultimately, recovery.
Embodied Identification and Social Exchange
Authors: Roginsky Dina 
Published: March 2022

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Relying on ethnographic, historic, and sociological analysis, this chapter explores Israeli folk dancing in the heart of New York City as a case study for both embodied identification with Israel, and as an arena for social exchange between Israeli immigrants and American Jews. Focusing on the dancing practice, the emotional experience in participants’ life stories, and the cultural history of the Israeli folk dance movement throughout the twentieth century, this chapter reveals both the personal and the institutional implications of this activity. On one hand Israeli folk dancing can be seen as an expression of “banal nationalism,” operating as a tool for Jewish education, socialization, and romanticization of the state of Israel. On the other hand, as the national and the personal merge into one embodied experience, this dynamic practice becomes deeply intertwined in people’s lives and fulfills different desires.
Unfixing Folk Dance
Authors: Pappas Rebecca , Moore Avia , Levinson Eileen 
Published: March 2022

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Folk dance is a contested site. It is often seen as providing cultural unity and keeping memory alive across generations and yet it is also a rich space in which to remix, reinterpret, and re-envision Jewish experience. The two selections in this chapter explore some of the challenges and potential of folk dance, examining the ways in which an embodied repertoire is present on the dance floor. Yiddish dance provides a rare space for individuals and communities to learn about and celebrate Jewish culture in a body-centric way. How can diverse notions of Jewish folk dance continue to provide continuity while making room for changing sensibilities, cultures, technologies, and bodies?
Into the Light
Authors: Szporer Philip 
Published: March 2022

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This chapter brings the Shabbat candle-lighting ritual and the notion of communitas into a central relationship, and looks at how the 1001 Lights installation, co-created by the author and Marlene Millar, considers these ideas. The chapter details the author’s personal history and connection to candle-lighting, the process by which the installation was conceived, and the author’s background in the field of dance-film. The chapter proposes that the act of candle-lighting and the content of the installation, including documentary footage as well as interpretative hand choreography, provide a site for transformative reflection.
Felix Fibich and Torqueing as a Central Motif in Modern Male Subjectivity
Authors: Jackson Naomi M. , Gereboff Joel , Weintraub Steven Lee 
Published: March 2022

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This chapter examines the life and art of Polish-born Jewish actor and dancer Felix Fibich as a rich example of the intersection of discourses about the Jewish body, movement, the emotions, and dance in the twentieth century. Fibich devoted his life to performing, analyzing, and preserving “Jewish movement,” which he believed was the direct reflection of a unique Jewish character. The chapter demonstrates how the specific image and enactment of the torqued, angular body, defined by twists and oppositional pulls in space, provides a powerful modernist mapping of Jewish male subjectivity that migrated from Eastern Europe to the United States, and also of the struggle for transcendence in the face of adversity. Frequently represented in popular culture in a simplistic and stereotyped manner, this richly conceived perspective of the dancing Jewish body provides important insights into shifting ideas about the relationship between Jewish souls, bodies, and emotions.
Indigenous Gender Intersubjectivities
Authors: Carlson Bronwyn , Kennedy Tristan , Farrell Andrew 
Published: March 2022

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Indigenous Peoples’ lived reality of gender is explicitly tied to the ongoing colonial project in Australia. This chapter considers the everyday world as problematic, and in doing so examines the lived experiences of Indigenous Peoples’ gender expression and identities and the politics of colonial gender norms. The chapter proposes an approach that challenges Western constructs and centers the standpoint of the agent in everyday life. Drawing on contemporary Indigenous gender studies and sociology literature, this chapter offers an innovative approach to decolonizing Indigenous bodies. Working from this premise, the authors recognize Indigenous Peoples as sovereign agents in the everyday.
Social Ethics for Ecological and Community Resilience
Authors: Keith Heather E. 
Published: March 2022

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As much as, or perhaps more than, any other American pragmatist, Jane Addams was committed to using her philosophic work to increase the quality of life of local and global stakeholders and to solve the great problems of her time. Perhaps the most impactful, global, and insidious problems of our time are the effects, often inequitable, on social and natural communities from climate change and other environmental disasters. This chapter examines Addams’ social ethics, pragmatist feminism, proto-ecofeminism, and community activism and her potential influence on environmental values and practice in strengthening community and ecosystem resilience, including in concepts such as ecofeminist, land ethic, and wicked problems approaches, and practices such as movements and organizations that motivate and mobilize people to act in the interest of environmental goods. This chapter argues that we can fruitfully apply Addams’s theoretical work to reimagining our connection with and commitment to the more-than-human world, and her social work and community organizing to promoting environmental justice and equality, and preventing and mitigating environmental catastrophes, such as the effects of climate change, on our communities and planet.
Public Administration and Social Equity
Authors: Heckler Nuri 
Published: March 2022

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Since its founding, the self-conscious study of public administration withdrew from many difficult questions on the argument that normative issues were primarily the responsibility of the democratic process. This was a direct rejection of Jane Addams’s intertwining of moral philosophy and public service at Hull House and in the political sphere. In her writings she views public service as unavoidably political and argues for prioritizing social justice in governance. Her understanding of social justice is closely aligned to what public-administration scholars refer to as social equity. This chapter argues that Addams’s emphasis on the feminine aspects of public service, her adoption of the social gospel as a normative lodestone, and her activism simultaneously diminished her influence on public-administration scholarship and amplified her influence on public-administration practice. Addams’s ideas have entered every sector of governance through her influence over policy making, her setting the standard for nonprofit community engagement, and the long echo of her activism. Understanding contemporary public administration requires understanding Addams’s influence on it and on social equity particularly. As Addams’s legacy drove public administration forward in the last century, social-equity researchers now need to catch up.
The Constitution of Argentina
Authors: Bertomeu Juan F. González 
Published: March 2022

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This chapter provides an introduction to the origins, role, and structure of the Argentine constitution, consisting of the text but also some interpretations of, and expectations around, it. It is divided into three parts. The first delves into the origins of constitutionalism in Argentina. It reviews previous attempts at stabilizing political life through constitutional law, and discusses the process leading to the 1853 constitution as well as the constitution’s underlying philosophy, ideational origins, main tenets, and reception. The second part analyses the constitution’s role in political life, and reviews the amendments made to it. The final part is devoted to the constitution’s main building blocks. It focuses on the structure of the political branches, the territorial organization of power, the judiciary, and constitutional rights.
Paraguay
Authors: Mendonça Daniel , Mendonça Juan Carlos 
Published: March 2022

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This chapter presents a brief history of Paraguayan constitutionalism in the broadest political and cultural context. It shows that it would be absurd to deny that the vicissitudes of Paraguayan constitutionalism have been in direct contact with the vicissitudes of its politics, rights, and morals, even and mainly in those cases in which the constitution was simulated or overtly violated; just as it would be in vain to deny that the country requires today, as it did yesterday, a better constitutional document to frame the entire cultural life, understanding culture as the catalogue of answers that provides a people with a catalogue of problems.
The 2009 Bolivian Constitution
Authors: Braver Joshua 
Published: March 2022

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The ‘people’ are the ultimate source of authority for a constitution. But who are ‘the people’? The danger is that populist leaders will define the people as one segment of the population that is unbound by law to create a new constitution that centralizes power in the leader’s own hands. This is exactly what happened with the creations of the 1999 Venezuelan and 2008 Ecuadorian constitutions. In many ways, Bolivia is a sister country to Venezuela and Ecuador. However, unlike the Venezuelan and Ecuadorian Constitutions, the 2009 Bolivian Constitution has reasonable levels of checks and balances and respect for the rule of law. I trace Bolivia’s divergence to its peculiar constitution-making process and how that process embodies a profound theory of constituent power, that is the relationship between law and ‘the people’ in constitution-making. Bolivia illuminates an alternative idea of the people’s relationship to law that I call ‘extraordinary adaptation’. In it, law is simultaneously transcended to break with the past and drawn upon to ensure the inclusion of multiple actors. Even as many of the specific rules of the old institutions are bent, reinterpreted, or broken, those institutions are still ‘extraordinarily adapted’ to regulate the creation of the new constitution. The process may violate a law to realize a new beginning, but it does not plunge the country into a legal abyss. It may be illegal, but it is not lawless. The illegality must be principled in three ways: (1) The violator must exhaust all other legal channels; (2) openly acknowledge the violation in search of popular vindication, and (3) concede enough to the opposition so that it may begrudgingly acquiesce to the new constitution. This liminal legal space constructs a plural people that may realize their freedom to break with the past but still stave off the establishment of semi-authoritarian constitutions.
Courts and Judicial Independence
Authors: Taylor Matthew M. 
Published: March 2022

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This chapter deals with the issue of judicial independence in Latin America. It argues that independence has—on the whole—been increasing in Latin America, bringing with it a judicial system that is at the service of local democracy. However, increasing independence also raises a number of challenges. Because judicial independence is inherently political, it is subject to a variety of subtle constraints that are particularly salient under the conditions of inequality, elite domination, and partisan conflict that prevail in the region. Second, independence is only one of several desiderata for courts, and greater independence has not always been matched by greater efficacy, efficiency, or the overall rule of law. Third, judicial accountability does not necessarily mean constraints on judicial independence, but many judges find it useful to portray any effort to impose controls on wages and budgets, or to push for more efficient courts, as an effort to curtail independence.
Courts, Strategic Litigation, and Social Change
Authors: Rodríguez-Franco Diana , Rodríguez-Garavito César 
Published: March 2022

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This chapter analyses the impact of institutional adjudication by focusing on the work of the Colombian Constitutional Court. Drawing on an extended case study of the implementation of Judgment T-025 of 2004 (T25) concerning internally displaced persons, it contributes to unpacking the black box of implementation and the impact of structural rulings on the fulfilment of socio-economic rights and social change more broadly. Methodologically, T25 constitutes what Goertz and Mahoney call a ‘substantively important case’, that is, ‘an ideal type or well-known exemplar of a phenomenon’, which offers insights into the workings of adjudication and strategic litigation in similar cases not only in Latin America, but also in other jurisdictions such as India and South Africa, whose apex courts have taken up structural cases.
Access to Justice
Authors: Cunha Luciana Gross 
Published: March 2022

Abstract
Access to justice in Latin America has undergone substantial changes in the recent history of the region. With few exceptions, these changes accompanied the process of political transition to democracy. These changes range from the incorporation of new procedural instruments, through the constitutionalization of rights and new designs of the justice system, and even by the creation of alternative forms of conflict resolution and incorporation of principles inspired by international treaties, such as the reasonable duration of the process. This chapter presents an overview of the main institutional transformations in Latin American countries that have had an impact on access to justice. Although most of the examples refer to the Brazilian case, the studies about the region show that similar process has happened in other Latin American countries.
The Constitution of Brazil in Context
Authors: Afonso da Silva Virgílio , Pereira Thomaz 
Published: March 2022

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This chapter aims to introduce the fundamental institutional features of the current Brazilian constitutional regime. The 1988 Brazilian Constitution is, simultaneously (i) a product of a continuing history with characteristics that reflect mainstream political ideas that have been part of the Brazilian constitutional debates for more than two centuries, and have been also present in past constitutional texts; (ii) a pragmatic response to past troubling experiences and institutional failures, reacting to some recurrent issues in Brazilian—and, more broadly, Latin American—political history with different institutional design solutions; and (iii) the specific political outcome of a long and negotiated democratic transition and a political diverse Constituent Assembly in which many divergent and, sometimes, conflicting interests were represented.
Multicultural Constitutions
Authors: Bonilla Maldonado Daniel 
Published: March 2022

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This chapter aims to describe and analyse the conceptual and legal structure of multicultural Latin American constitutions. It seeks to present and examine the axes that shape the normative framework that recognizes cultural difference and the way in which intercultural relations are regulated. To achieve this, it offers three theses. First, it argues that Latin American multicultural constitutions can be divided into two groups: liberal constitutions and radical constitutions. Second, it argues that the two groups of multicultural constitutions are structured by the grammar of modern constitutionalism. Third, despite their common conceptual framework, radical constitutions differ from the liberal ones in terms of the detail, precision, and importance of the legal norms that regulate cultural diversity. These constitutions also include two elements beyond the grammar of modern constitutionalism: the idea of good living and the rights of nature.
Prisoners’ Rights
Authors: Rocha Machado Maíra 
Published: March 2022

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This chapter aims to identify how Constitutional texts refer to the prison population, considering both the content of rights and guarantees, as well as suspensions and exceptions established for persons deprived of freedom. It first presents the results of a survey of the laws contained in the current Constitutions of Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, which are the four countries with the highest number of incarcerated persons in Latin America, surpassing a total of one million people. The focus on constitutional laws, however, does not allow for observation of the repertoire of prisoners’ rights that are a part of the infra-constitutional legislation of these countries, or provided for in instruments developed starting in the mid-twentieth century, within the scope of UN and the OAS. Therefore, this research is concerned with analyzing only the norms explicitly included in the constitutional text of these countries. The third part of the text addresses the way Constitutional Courts, particularly in Brazil and Colombia, have been facing this issue in the context of the ‘state of unconstitutional affairs’ doctrine.
Constitutional History of the Colombian Paradox (1886–2016)
Authors: Barreto-Rozo Antonio 
Published: March 2022

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Analysts believe that down the thorny path of its history, Colombia suffered from a number of ‘geological faults’: institutional weakness, the agrarian question, the fateful mixture of politics and war, drug-trafficking, uncontrolled mining, economic, social, political, and cultural inequities, which have left a deep scar in the physical distribution of the territory with hostile geography. All of them are factors which are frequently invoked. However, if all that is true, how can Colombia be one of the most stable democracies in the region? The existence of these pronounced contrasts of different kinds; the asymmetry that divides Colombian society into centre and periphery; the geography which is the setting of the armed conflict, drug-trafficking, clientelism, and the forgotten rural areas—all of them come together to make what has been called the ‘Colombian Paradox’. This chapter aims to help explain the paradox. Its framework combines historical reference points with constitutional parameters, to find out why it exists and persists, and how a course could be plotted to be rid of it.
Sex Equality
Authors: Jaramillo Sierra Isabel Cristina 
Published: March 2022

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The last twenty years or so have witnessed crucial innovations in Latin America regarding constitutional design: from Argentina’s constitutionalizing of international law in 1994 to Ecuador and Bolivia’s consecration of good living as a constitutional principle. However, sex discrimination, as an argument, has just started to take root in legal mobilization and adjudication throughout the region. This chapter maps out these interventions to highlight the building blocks for the feminist constitutionalism to come, while acknowledging that constitutions have been hostile environments for women and that there have been good reasons for women to stay away. It starts by providing an account of how sex equality is mandated in the text of Latin American constitutions. It then describes the ways in which Courts have used sex equality in cases involving constitutional decisions. Finally, it describes three strategies used by feminist organizations to harness the power of constitutions to better the lives of women.
The Right to Health
Authors: Yamin Alicia Ely 
Published: March 2022

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This chapter focuses on the judicialization of health rights in Latin America. It begins by outlining the constitutional provisions in relation to health rights in five countries: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Mexico. It then turns to experiences with judicial enforcement of health rights in the region. After briefly setting out some context for the intense use of individual judicial actions, it explores the potential opportunities and challenges of dialogical remedies as a response to structural failures in the health system, based upon a case study of the most sweeping structural decision to date in this area, T-760/08, in which the Colombian Constitutional Court called for reform of the health system based upon the right to health. It concludes that while dialogical remedies can potentially foster dialogue with the executive as well as shifts in political actions regarding health as a right. There are significant limitations to the extent to which judiciaries can destabilize the steep asymmetries of information and power within segmented and marketized health sectors, and catalyse greater democratic control over the broader political economies of health in the region.
A View from Western Europe
Authors: Hailbronner Michaela 
Published: March 2022

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Latin American and European lawyers share many things: a civil law tradition; past experience with authoritarianism and massive human rights violations; an activist approach to adjudication taken by many contemporary Latin American and European tribunals; and a commitment to supra-national legal integration. However, Latin American constitutionalism also looks incredibly different to Western European eyes. For instance, it represents a constitutionalism confronted on a near-daily basis with high levels of poverty and political violence, grappling not infrequently with the challenge how to address populist or even authoritarian regimes. This chapter addresses European and Latin American conceptions of law in the context of addressing structural problems, focusing on the role of judicial remedies. It then connects this with some first thoughts on what kind of questions and issues seem worth exploring when asking how lawyers might confront populism in Europe and Latin America