Social & Legal Studies
Book Review: Jurisprudence and Socio-Legal Studies: Intersecting Fields by R COTTERRELL
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print.
Social & Legal Studies
Storytelling and Listening in Transitional Justice Processes: Addressing the Marginalisation of More-than-Human Worlds
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. This interdisciplinary article makes three important contributions to discussions about transitional justice and storytelling. First, it problematises the anthropocentric character of transitional justice and …
Social & Legal Studies
‘Circling the Drain’: The Emotional ‘Dirty’ Work of Legal Aid Workers
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. Emotions have traditionally been seen as out of place in law. They are viewed in opposition to many of law’s central values such as efficiency and rationality. Despite this, legal work often involves brushing …
Social & Legal Studies
From European Roots to Settler Soil: Adapting Foucault’s Biopolitics to Canadian Settler Colonialism
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. This article examines the applicability of Michel Foucault’s biopolitical theory within the Canadian settler colonial context. Foucault’s concept of biopolitics, which describes the shift from sovereign power …
Social & Legal Studies
How Does Legal Culture Matter for Climate Mobilities? A Case Study in an Unplanned Coastal Settlement in Urban Mozambique
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. This article responds to the general neglect of legal culture in the study of climate mobilities. It presents a case study of climate mobilities in an unplanned settlement in Maputo, Mozambique, exploring how …
Social & Legal Studies
Problematising the ‘Man Problem’ in the Domestic Abuse Act: Discursive Co-option and The (In)Visibility of Gender
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. This article offers a discourse analysis of domestic abuse’s ‘Man Problem’ by combining and developing Naffine’s, Foucault’s and Bacchi’s work in a new way. Taking the parliamentary debates around the Domestic…
Social & Legal Studies
Book Review: Feminism, Violence Against Women, and Law Reform: Decolonial Lessons From Ecuador by SILVANA TAPIA TAPIA
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print.
Social & Legal Studies
The Courtroom as Four Landscapes: Reflections on Terrorism Trials Through Ethnographic Research
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. In the past decade, Western European countries such as Germany, the Netherlands, the UK and France have seen a sharp increase in terrorism trials. Studying these trials can provide unique insights into which t…
Social & Legal Studies
How to Build a Culture of Human Rights in the Era of Populism: Reflections From the Human Rights City of York (UK)
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. This article analyses how to build a culture of human rights in the era of populism. The UK, and the York Human Rights City initiative, provide a case study. The article draws on a human rights practice method…
Social & Legal Studies
Forensic Radiology and the Testimony of Shadows
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. This article examines how radiological images became accepted by courts as visual evidence of death in the 20th century. Initially conceived as a speciality of photography, X-rays confounded courts, eliciting …