Law's Documents

ISBN-13: 9781032162218 / Miękka / 2023 / 376 str.

Opis

Illuminating their breadth and diversity, this book presents a comprehensive and multidisciplinary view of legal documents and their manifold forms, uses, materialities and meanings.

Spis treści

PART I: WHAT IS A DOCUMENT?  1. Law’s Documents: Authority, Materiality, Aesthetics (Katherine Biber, Trish Luker and Priya Vaughan)  2. In Wood and Word, or, A Gloss on Documents and Documentation in the Humanities (Bonnie Mak)  PART II: AUTHORITY  3. When Records Speak we Listen: Conversations with the Archive (Jeanine Leane and Natalie Harkin)  4. Passport Struggles: Lawful Documents and the Politics of Recognition and Refusal (Sara Dehm)  5. What is a Bogus Document?  Refugees, Race and Identity Documents under Australian Migration Law (Anthea Vogl)  6. The Historian as Document Producer: A Candid Reflection on the Production of Oral History Timed Summaries (Jesse Adams Stein)  7. Forty-nine most common phrases (Alison Whittaker)  PART III: MATERIALITY  8. Law’s Signature Acts (Trish Luker)  9. Treaty Documents: Materialising International Legal Agreement (Jessie Hohmann)  10. Conjuring Documents: Informal Wills (Katherine Biber)  11. Powerful Documents from the Archive: Nyungar Letters and the Ancestors Words Project (Anna Haebich, Darryl Kickett, Marion Kickett, Anthony Kickett, Jeannie Morrison)  12. Material Violence: Destruction, Mishaps, and Redaction of Stasi Photographs (Donna West Brett)  PART IV: AESTHETICS  13. Artists and Legal Documents: Aesthetic, Witnessing, and Affective Power (Priya Vaughan)  14. The Rape Contract (Shevaun Wright)  15. The Aesthetic Archive: Appropriating Legal Documents in Visual Art (Carolyn McKay)  16. OA_RR: Documenting Sovereignty (Georgine Clarsen)  17. Historio-graphic: Knowledge Design Methods for Interpreting Documents (Anne Burdick, Jacquie Lorber-Kasunic, Kate Sweetapple)  18. Artistic License: Joan Kee interviews Carey Young