Chapter 6 Traditional medicines, law and the (dis)ordering of temporalities

"Research on law's relationship with time has flourished over the past decade. This edited collection aims to put law and time scholarship into wider context, advancing conversations on time and temporalities between socio-legal scholars, anthropologists, sociologists, geographers and historians. Through a diverse range of contributions, the collection explores how legal modalities of time emerge and have effects within wider clusters of social and political action. Themes include: law's diverse roles in maintaining linear historicist models of time; law's participation in the materialisation of times; and the unsteady effects of temporal pluralism and polytemporalities in law. De-naturalising the 'time' in law and time scholarship, this collection positions time as something that can be enacted and materialised as well as experienced, with distinct implications for questions of social justice."--Provided by publisher List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction • Emily Grabham and Siân M. Beynon-Jones SOCIAL TIME: COURTS, LITIGATION AND PUBLIC AUTHORITY 1 The long sudden death of Antonin Scalia • Carol J. Greenhouse 2 ‘No. I won’t go back’: National time, trauma and legacies of symphysiotomy in Ireland • Máiréad Enright 3 Time-spaces of adjudication in the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis • Philip Ashton 4 On delay and duration. Law’s temporal orders in historical child sexual abuse cases • Sinéad Ring POST/COLONIAL TIMES 5 ‘Give us his name’: Time, law and language in a settler colony • Genevieve Renard Painter 6 Traditional medicines, law and the (dis)ordering of temporalities • Emilie Cloatre 7 Making land liquid: On time and title registration • Sarah Keenan THE POLITICS OF LABOUR TIME 8 Regulating the ‘half-timer’ in colonial India: Factory legislation, its anomalies and resistance • Maya John 9 Work-time technology and unpaid labour in paid care work: A socio-legal analysis of employment contracts and electronic monitoring • L.J.B Hayes TECHNOLOGIES AND INFRASTRUCTURES OF TIME 10 Standards in the shadows for everyone to see: The supranational regulation of time and the concern over temporal pluralism • Kevin Birth 11 Energy governance, risk and temporality: The construction of energy time through law and regulation • Antti Silvast, Mikko Jalas and Jenny Rinkinen TOPOLOGIES OF TIME 12 Doing times, doing truths: The legal case file as a folded object • Irene van Oorschot 13 Topological time, law, and subjectivity: A description in five folds • Sameena Mulla Index In bringing together this collection on law?s relationship with time, our concern has been to register an increasing commitment among scholars across disciplines to shift such patterns of engagement. Our own research over the past few years has been preoccupied with the question of law?s temporalities, drawing on a range of critical resources to investigate, through empirical research, the coproduction of legal and temporal norms, subjectivities and political ontologies. In our related efforts to create an interdisciplinary network of scholars working on law and time,2 we have noted a distinct openness to questions of law, regulation and legality from social sciences and humanities scholars working on temporality, on the one hand (e.g. Adkins, 2012; Amoore, 2013; de Goede, 2015; Mitropoulos, 2012; Opitz et al., 2015), and an incisive conceptual and methodological interdisciplinarity among critical and socio-legal scholars, on the other (e.g. Cooper, 2013; Cornell, 1990; Craven et al., 2006; Douglas, 2011; Fitzpatrick, 2013; Keenan, 2014; Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, 2013; Valverde, 2015; van Marle, 2003). Critical approaches to linear time and attention to law?s shaping of time in diverse forms and through multiple techniques have animated research across disciplines. We hope that the present collection will highlight these shared concerns, fostering the cross-fertilisation of ideas and methods and further developing conversations on law and time between socio-legal scholars, anthropologists, sociologists, geographers, historians and others Research on law's relationship with time has flourished over the past decade. This edited collection aims to put law and time scholarship into wider context, advancing conversations on time and temporalities between socio-legal scholars, anthropologists, sociologists, geographers and historians. Through a diverse range of contributions, the collection explores how legal modalities of time emerge and have effects within wider clusters of social and political action. Themes include: law's diverse roles in maintaining linear historicist models of time; law's participation in the materialisation of times; and the unsteady effects of temporal pluralism and polytemporalities in law. De-naturalising the ‘time'in law and time scholarship, this collection positions time as something that can be enacted and materialised as well as experienced, with distinct implications for questions of social justice.The Introduction and Chapter 6 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.