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This chapter reflects on what materiality-inflected methodologies1 can bring to an anthropology of law, and to legal studies more generally. Its starting point is an increasing attention across the social sciences and humanities for objects, and thinking beyond the human. These have often, but no...

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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-284152021-11-12T16:08:16Z Chapter 21 Legalities and materialities Cloatre, Emilie Cowan, Dave law philosophy anthropology law philosophy anthropology Donna Haraway Ethnography Fractal Legal anthropology Legal consciousness Ontology Social theory bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHM Anthropology bic Book Industry Communication::L Law This chapter reflects on what materiality-inflected methodologies1 can bring to an anthropology of law, and to legal studies more generally. Its starting point is an increasing attention across the social sciences and humanities for objects, and thinking beyond the human. These have often, but not only, emerged from science and technology studies (STS), to which we pay particular attention. However, approaches to materiality have themselves become diversified, and their implications for law can similarly be read in multiple ways. At the same time, legal anthropology has helped to re-characterise the complexity of law as a field of social activity by paying attention to its meanings, for actors within as well as outside its own institutions; to its modes of action in practice, again within its explicitly designated spaces as well as its everyday; to its unexpected forms, patterns and directions; to its multiplicity and uncertainty. Approaches within a broadly defined ‘legal anthropology’ agenda have provided tools to move away from grand and removed theorisation of the law, or an exclusive attention to its own claims, and towards a subtler understanding of law as a relatively fluid, changing and uncertain set of practices. While doing so, legal anthropology has also reminded us of the significance of empirical research to identify and theorise the complex existences of law, a contribution which echoes some of the implications of materiality-oriented theories. 2019-10-17 14:50:09 2020-04-01T12:22:23Z 2018-09-27 23:55 2019-10-17 14:50:09 2020-04-01T12:22:23Z 2020-04-01T12:22:23Z 2018 chapter 1001542 OCN: 1076639537 9781317353003; 9781317352990; 9781317352983; 9781315665733 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/28415 eng Routledge Handbooks application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781138956469_oachapter21.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge Handbook of Law and Theory Routledge 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 1c7340d7-05ef-4751-8399-7c423f1fe4a6 9781317353003; 9781317352990; 9781317352983; 9781315665733 Routledge 22 open access
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