Routledge handbook of law and theory. -- 21 Legalities and materialities

This Handbook Sets Out An Innovative Approach To The Theory Of Law, Reconceptualising It In A Material, Embodied, Socially Contextualised And Politically Radical Way. The Book Consists Of Original Contributions Authored By Prominent Academics, All Of Whom Provide A Valuable Overview Of Legal Theory As A Discipline. The Book Contains Five Sections: * Spatiotemporal * Sense * Body * Text * Matter Through This Structure, The Handbook Brings The Law Into Active Discussion With Other Disciplines, As Well As Supra-disciplinary Debates On The Areas Of Spatiality, Temporality, Materiality, Corporeality And Sensorial Studies, Capturing The Most Exciting Developments In Current Legal Theory, And Anticipating Future Research In The Area. The Handbook Is Essential Reading For Scholars And Students Of Jurisprudence, Sociology Of Law, Critical Legal Studies, Socio-legal Theory And Interdisciplinary Legal Studies, As Well As Those People From Other Disciplines Interested In The Way The Law Converses With Interdisciplinarity. Chapter 21 Of This Book Is Freely Available As A Downloadable Open Access Pdf Under A Creative Commons Attribution-non Commercial-no Derivatives 3.0 License. Https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/open+access+chapters/9781138956469_oachapter21.pdf Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 6 Copyright......Page 7 Contents......Page 8 List of figures and table......Page 12 Notes on contributors......Page 14 Introduction: The and of law and theory......Page 20 Part I Spatiotemporal......Page 32 1 Dense struggle: On ghosts, law and the global order......Page 34 2 Spatial abstraction, legal violence and the promise of appropriation......Page 68 3 A prison around your ankle and a border in every street: Theorising law, space and the subject......Page 90 4 ‘Praxiographies’ of time: Law, temporalities, and material worlds......Page 110 5 Continua of (in)justice......Page 128 6 Movement: An homage to legal drips, wobbles and perpetual motion......Page 148 Part II Sense......Page 170 7 Disenchanting senses: Law and the taste of the real......Page 172 8 Synaesthesia: The mystical sense of law......Page 198 9 Touching you, touching me in law and justice: Toward a quantum holographic process-informational understanding......Page 222 10 Turbulent legality: Sovereignty, security and the police......Page 242 Part III Body......Page 262 11 Sequences on law and the body......Page 264 12 On resisting bodies......Page 284 13 Insect wars: Bees, bedbugs and biopolitics......Page 298 14 ‘Anthropocene “Time”?’ – A reflection on temporalities in the ‘New Age of the Human’......Page 316 15 Making lawful animals......Page 336 Part IV Text......Page 346 16 Feminist genres of violence and law’s aggressive realism......Page 348 17 From decaffeinated democracy to democracy in the real in ten (Lacanian) sessions......Page 366 18 Why law’s objects do not disappear: On history as remainder......Page 384 19 Must the law be a liar? Walter Benjamin on the possibility of an anarchist form of law......Page 406 20 Literary materiality......Page 428 Part V Matter......Page 450 21 Legalities and materialities......Page 452 22 Law’s materiality: Between concrete matters and abstract forms, or how matter becomes material......Page 472 23 To have to do with the law: An essay......Page 494 24 On new model jurisprudence: The scholar/critic as (cosmic) artisan......Page 516 Index......Page 540 Luis Eslava / Dense Struggle : On Ghosts, Law, And The Global Order -- Chris Butler / Spatial Abstraction, Legal Violence, And The Promise Of Appropriation -- Sarah Keenan / A Prison Around Your Ankle And A Border In Every Street : Theorising Law, Space And The Subject -- Emily Grabham / Praxiographies' Of Time : Law, Temporalities, And Material Worlds -- Lucy Finchett-maddock / Continua Of (in)justice -- Olivia Barr / Movement An Homage To Legal Drips, Wobbles & Perpetual Motion -- Andrea Pavoni / Disenchanting Senses : Law And The Taste Of The Real -- Nicola Masciandario / Synaesthesia : The Mystical Sense Of Law -- Dragan Milovanovich / Touching You, Touching Me In Law And Justice : Toward A Quantum Holographic Process-informational Understanding -- Illan Rua Wall / Turbulent Legality : Sovereignty, Security, And The Police -- Elena Loizidou / Sequences On Law And The Body -- Laurent De Sutter / On Resisting Bodies -- Renisa Mawani / Insect Wars : Bees, Bedbugs, And Biopolitics -- Anna Grear / Anthropocene Time? A Reflection On Temporalities In The New Age Of The Human -- Yoriko Otomo / Making Lawful Animals -- Honni Van Rijswijk / Law's Aggressive Realism And Feminist Genres Of Violence And Harm -- Maria Aristodemou / From Decaffeinated Democracy To Democracy In The Real In Ten (lacanian) Sessions -- Christopher Tomlins / Why Law's Objects Do Not Disappear : On History As Remainder -- James Martel / Must The Law Be A Liar? Walter Benjamin On The Possibility Of An Anarchist Form Of Law -- Alain Pottage / Literary Materiality -- Emilie Cloatre And David Cowan / Legalities And Materialities -- Hyo Yoon Kang Law's Materiality : Between Concrete Matters And Abstract Forms, Or How Matter Becomes Material -- Andreas Philippopoulos-mihalopoulos / To Have To Do With The Law : An Essay -- Anne Bottomley And Nathan Moore / On New Model Jurisprudence : The Scholar/critic As (cosmic) Artisan. Edited By Andreas Philippopoulos-mihalopoulos. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. This chapter reflects on what materiality-inflected methodologies1 can bring to an anthropology of law, and to legal studies more generally. Its starting point is an increasing attention across the social sciences and humanities for objects, and thinking beyond the human. These have often, but not only, emerged from science and technology studies (STS), to which we pay particular attention. However, approaches to materiality have themselves become diversified, and their implications for law can similarly be read in multiple ways. At the same time, legal anthropology has helped to re-characterise the complexity of law as a field of social activity by paying attention to its meanings, for actors within as well as outside its own institutions; to its modes of action in practice, again within its explicitly designated spaces as well as its everyday; to its unexpected forms, patterns and directions; to its multiplicity and uncertainty. Approaches within a broadly defined ‘legal anthropology’ agenda have provided tools to move away from grand and removed theorisation of the law, or an exclusive attention to its own claims, and towards a subtler understanding of law as a relatively fluid, changing and uncertain set of practices. While doing so, legal anthropology has also reminded us of the significance of empirical research to identify and theorise the complex existences of law, a contribution which echoes some of the implications of materiality-oriented theories. This handbook sets out an innovative approach to the theory of law, reconceptualising it in a material, embodied, socially contextualised and politically radical way. The book consists of original contributions authored by prominent academics, all of whom provide a valuable overview of legal theory as a discipline. The book contains five sections: • Spatiotemporal • Sense • Body • Text • Matter Through this structure, the handbook brings the law into active discussion with other disciplines, as well as supra-disciplinary debates on the areas of spatiality, temporality, materiality, corporeality and sensorial studies, capturing the most exciting developments in current legal theory, and anticipating future research in the area. The handbook is essential reading for scholars and students of jurisprudence, sociology of law, critical legal studies, socio-legal theory and interdisciplinary legal studies, as well as those people from other disciplines interested in the way the law converses with interdisciplinarity. Chapter 21 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open Access Chapters/9781138956469_oachapter21.pdf This handbook sets out an innovative approach to the theory of law, reconceptualising it in a material, embodied, socially contextualised and politically radical way. The book consists of original contributions authored by prominent academics, all of whom provide a valuable overview of legal theory as a discipline. The book contains five sections: Spatiotemporal Sense Body Text Matter Through this structure, the handbook brings the law into active discussion with other disciplines, as well as supra-disciplinary debates on the areas of spatiality, temporality, materiality, corporeality and sensorial studies, capturing the most exciting developments in current legal theory, and anticipating future research in the area. The handbook is essential reading for scholars and students of jurisprudence, sociology of law, critical legal studies, socio-legal theory and interdisciplinary legal studies, as well as those people from other disciplines interested in the way the law converses with interdisciplinarity. Chapter 12 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. This handbook sets out an innovative approach to the theory of law, reconceptualising it in a material, embodied, socially contextualised and politically radical way. The book consists of original contributions authored by prominent academics, all of whom provide a valuable overview of legal theory as a discipline. The book contains five sections: - Spatiotemporal - Sense - Body - Text - Matter. Through this structure, the handbook brings the law into active discussion with other disciplines, as well as supra-disciplinary debates on the areas of spatiality, temporality, materiality, corporeality and sensorial studies, capturing the most exciting developments in current legal theory, and anticipating future research in the area. The handbook is essential reading for scholars and students of jurisprudence, sociology of law, critical legal studies, socio-legal theory and interdisciplinary legal studies, as well as those people from other disciplines interested in the way the law converses with interdisciplinarity.-- Provided by Publisher This handbook sets out an innovative approach to the theory of law reconceptualising legal theory in a material, socially contextualised and politically radical way. The handbook brings law into active discussion with other disciplines capturing the most anticipated developments in legal theory.