Sensing Law (Social Justice)

By: Sheryl Hamilton and Diana Majury and Dawn Moore and Neil Sargent and Christiane Wilke

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Synopsis: A rich collection of interdisciplinary essays, this book explores the question: what is to be found at the intersection of the sensorium and law’s empire? Examining the problem of how legal rationalities try to grasp what can only be sensed through the body, these essays problematize the Cartesian framework that has long separated the mind from the body, reason from feeling and the human from the animal. In doing so, they consider how the sensorium can operate, variously, as a tool of power or as a means of countering the exercise of regulatory force. The senses, it is argued, operate as a vector for the implication of subjects in legal webs, but also as a powerful site of resistance to legal definition and determination. From the sensorium of animals to technologically mediated perception, the ways in which the law senses and the ways in which senses are brought before the law invite a questioning of the categories of liberal humanism. And, as this volume demonstrates, this questioning opens up the both interesting and important possibility of imagining other sensual subjectivities.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 334 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781317282044
Related ISBNs:: 9781315642116, 9781138188761, 9781138188761, 9781138624320, 9781138624320, 9781138624320, 9781138188761, 9781315642116
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 02/18/20
Copyrighted By:: N/A
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Sheryl Hamilton
Edited by:: Diana Majury
Edited by:: Dawn Moore
Edited by:: Neil Sargent
Edited by:: Christiane Wilke