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Download or read book Law's Dream of a Common Knowledge written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If knowledge is power, then the power of law can be studied through the lens of knowledge. This book opens up a substantive new area of legal research--knowledge production--and presents a series of case studies showing that the hybridity and eclecticism.
Author : Mariana Valverde
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400825563
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)
Download or read book Law's Dream of a Common Knowledge written by Mariana Valverde and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-09 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If knowledge is power, then the power of law can be studied through the lens of knowledge. This book opens up a substantive new area of legal research--knowledge production--and presents a series of case studies showing that the hybridity and eclecticism of legal knowledge processes make it unfruitful to ask questions such as, "Is law becoming more dominated by science?" Mariana Valverde argues that legal decision making cannot be understood if one counterposes science and technology, on the one hand, to common knowledge and common sense on the other. The case studies of law's flexible collage of knowledges range from determinations of drunkenness made by liquor licensing inspectors and by police, through police testimony in "indecency" cases, to how judges define the "truth" of sexuality and the harm that obscenity poses to communities. Valverde emphasizes that the types of knowledge that circulate in such legal arenas consist of "facts," values, and codes from numerous incompatible sources that combine to produce interesting hybrids with wide-ranging legal and social effects. Drawing on Foucaultian and other analytical tools, she cogently demonstrates that different modes of knowledge, and hence various forms of power, coexist happily. Law's Dream of a Common Knowledge underlines the importance of analyzing dynamically how knowledge formation works. And it helps us to better understand the workings of power and resistance in a variety of contemporary contexts. It will interest scholars and students from disciplines including law, sociology, anthropology, history, and science-and-technology studies as well as those concerned with the particular issues raised by the case studies.
Author : Mariana Valverde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780691086996
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)
Download or read book Law's Dream of a Common Knowledge written by Mariana Valverde and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If knowledge is power, then the power of law can be studied through the lens of knowledge. This book opens up a substantive new area of legal research -- knowledge production -- and presents a series of case studies showing that the hybridity and eclecticism of legal knowledge processes make it unfruitful to ask questions such as, "Is law becoming more dominated by science?" Mariana Valverde argues that legal decision making cannot be understood if one counterposes science and technology, on the one hand, to common knowledge and common sense on the other. The case studies of law's flexible collage of knowledges range from determinations of drunkenness made by liquor licensing inspectors and by police, through police testimony in "indecency" cases, to how judges define the "truth" of sexuality and the harm that obscenity poses to communities.
Author : Christine Hentschel
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452945306
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)
Download or read book Security in the Bubble written by Christine Hentschel and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2015-08-08 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the South African city of Durban, Security in the Bubble looks at spatialized security practices, engaging with strategies and dilemmas of urban security governance in cities around the world. While apartheid was spatial governance at its most brutal, postapartheid South African cities have tried to reinvent space, using it as a “positive” technique of governance. Christine Hentschel traces the contours of two emerging urban regimes of governing security in contemporary Durban: handsome space and instant space. Handsome space is about aesthetic and affective communication as means to making places safe. Instant space, on the other hand, addresses the crime-related personal “navigation” systems employed by urban residents whenever they circulate through the city. While handsome space embraces the powers of attraction, instant space operates through the powers of fleeing. In both regimes, security is conceived not as a public good but as a situational experience that can. No longer reducible to the after-pains of racial apartheid, this city’s fragmentation is now better conceptualized, according to Hentschel, as a heterogeneous ensemble of bubbles of imagined safety.
Author : Martha Merrill Umphrey
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804755252
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)
Download or read book How Law Knows written by Martha Merrill Umphrey and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The chapters in this book were originally prepared ... during the 2004-2005 academic year."--Acknowledgments.
Author : Anna Margaretha Horatschek
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110655977
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)
Download or read book Competing Knowledges – Wissen im Widerstreit written by Anna Margaretha Horatschek and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-06-22 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whatever societies accept as ‘knowledge’ is embedded in epistemological, institutional, political, and economic power relations. How is knowledge produced under such circumstances? What is the difference between general knowledge and the sciences? Can there be science without universal truth claims? Questions like these are discussed in eleven essays from the perspective of Sociology, Law, Cultural Studies, and the Humanities.
Author : Gary Edmond
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351937723
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)
Download or read book Expertise in Regulation and Law written by Gary Edmond and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays examines the multi-faceted roles of experts and expertise in and around contemporary legal and regulatory cultures. The essays illustrate the complexity intrinsic to the production and use of expert knowledge, particularly during transition from specialist communities to other domains such as policy formulation, regulatory standard setting and litigation. Several themes pervade the collection. These include the need to recognize that: expert knowledge and opinion is often complex, controversial and contested; there are no simple criteria for resolving disagreements between experts; appeals to 'objectivity' and 'impartiality' tend to be rhetorical rather than analytical; contests in expertise are frequently episodes in larger campaigns; there are many different models of expertise and knowledge; processes designed to deal with expert knowledge are unavoidably political; questions around who is an expert and what should count as expertise are not always self-evident; and the evidence rarely 'speaks for itself'.
Author : Angela Fernandez
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 184731922X
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)
Download or read book Law Books in Action written by Angela Fernandez and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-02 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Law Books in Action: Essays on the Anglo-American Legal Treatise' explores the history of the legal treatise in the common law world. Rather than looking at treatises as shortcuts from 'law in books' to 'law in action', the essays in this collection ask what treatises can tell us about what troubled legal professionals at a given time, what motivated them to write what they did, and what they hoped to achieve. This book, then, is the first study of the legal treatise as a 'law book in action', an active text produced by individuals with ideas about what they wanted the law to be, not a mere stepping-stone to codes and other forms of legal writing, but a multifaceted genre of legal literature in its own right, practical and fanciful, dogmatic and ornamental in turn. This book will be of interest to legal scholars, lawyers and judges, as well as to anyone else with a scholarly interest in law in general, and legal history in particular.
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804768412
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)
Download or read book Modern Histories of Crime and Punishment written by and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-18 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of essays critically examining the historical development of the modern criminal law.
Author : Sarah Marusek
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351866303
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)
Download or read book Law, Space, and the Vehicular Environment written by Sarah Marusek and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the paved road as a liminal space and legal frontier for enlivened, everyday struggles over property, power, and place/definition. Through pavement itself and the pavement-based practices of pavementalities and pavementeering, the road is legally framed as a place for movement. Paved terrain is a site of dynamism between law and place that engenders the road as legal metaphor by calling forth the kinetic notion of jurisprudence in which law can be understood through the fluidity of everyday life. In Western (and particularly American) society, roads are a material locus of governance, in which rights of way are determined, communicated, and enforced. However, roads also constitute a site of resistance or disruption, beyond regulation. Addressing phenomena such as travel, political protest, public memory, and community governance, this book explores the paved medium of asphalt as a complex surface for legality that constitutively frames order against disorder involving jurisdiction tensions, property ownership, and cultural identities in vehicular environments. The target audience of this book are those students and scholars who consider how law works in society, whether through frameworks of (auto) mobility and legal geography or through the interdisciplinary approaches of legal semiotics, legal culture, and/or new materialism.
