This book provides a fresh and accessible overview of the most innovative and challenging theoretical approaches in the field of legal and political studies of the last three decades. To this end, it focuses on four main transformations that are reshaping the intersection of law and politics today: the rise of new types of subjectivities and their struggle for recognition; the fragmentation of culture and the rise of legal pluralism; the emergence of new techniques of government and the crisis of modern citizenship; alteration of the traditional modes of functioning of legal and political...