The Routledge Handbook of Law and Society

ISBN-13: 9780367694685 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 258 str.

Mariana Valverde; Prabha Kotiswaran; Kamari M. Clarke

Opis

This innovative handbook provides a comprehensive, and truly global, overview of the main approaches and themes within law and society scholarship or social-legal studies.

A one-volume introduction to academic resources and ideas that are relevant for today’s debates on issues from reproductive justice to climate justice, food security, water conflicts, artificial intelligence, and global financial transactions, this handbook is divided into two sections. The first, ‘Perspectives and Approaches’, accessibly explains a variety of frameworks through which the relationship between law and society is addressed and understood, with emphasis on contemporary perspectives that are relatively new to many socio-legal scholars. Following the book’s overall interest in social justice, the entries in this section of the book show how conceptual tools originate in, and help to illuminate, real-world issues. The second and largest section of the book (42 short well-written pieces) presents reflections on topics or areas concerning law, justice, and society that are inherently interdisciplinary and that are relevance to current – but also classical – struggles around justice. Informing readers about the lineage of ideas that are used or could be used today for research and activism, the book attends to the full range of local, national and transnational issues in law and society. The authors were carefully chosen to achieve a diverse and non-Eurocentric view of socio-legal studies.

This volume will be invaluable for law students, those in inter-disciplinary programs such as law and society, justice studies and legal studies, and those with interests in law, but based in other social sciences. It will also appeal to general readers interested in questions of justice and rights, including activists and advocates around the world.

Spis treści

Contested laws, contested societies: introductory remarks  Part 1: Contemporary Perspectives and Approaches  1. Actor-Network Theory and socio legal analysis  2. Critical legal studies: A curious case of hegemony without dominance  3. Critical race theory: Emergence and New Lines of Inquiry  4. Feminism  5. Governmentality and sociolegal studies  6. Indigenous law:  What non-Indigenous people can learn from Indigenous legal thought  7. Liberalism  8. Postcolonial legal studies  9. Queer theory and socio-legal studies  10. Transnational governance and law: Global security and socio-legal studies  Part 2: Sites of Engagement  11. Agriculture, Law, and the State  12. Animals  13. Artificial Intelligence and Public Law  14. Capitalism and capital  15. Censorship: state control of expression  16. Cities and urbanization  17. Citizenship  18. Class and economic inequality  19. Climate Justice  20. Corporations  21. Data  22. Domestic work: transnational regulation  23. Extractivism: Socio-legal Approaches to Relations with Lands and Resources  24. Finance, banking and debt  25. Food sovereignty and food justice  26. Gender and Law  27. Genocide  28. Human Rights: Challenging Universality  29. Immigration, Law and Resistance  30. Imperialism and law  31. Incarceration: how to understand imprisonment rates  32. Indicators:  Sociolegal Dimensions of Quantification  33. Indigeneity: making and contesting the concept  34. Infrastructure: socio-legal aspects of a key word of our time  35. Islamic law and the state  36. Jurisdiction  37. Labour and employment  38. Legal consciousness  39. Migration  40. Ownership: Persons, property, and community  41. Ownership of intangibles:  Intellectual Property and the Contested Commons  42. From reproductive rights to reproductive justice  43. Settler colonialism  44. Sexuality  45. Sovereignty  46. Space and belonging  47. Supply chains and logistics  48. Territory and law  49. The Transnational Law of Human Trafficking  50. Water disputes across borders  51. Water justice and indigenous peoples  52. White Supremacy