Street-Level Sovereignty
The Intersection of Space and Law
Contributions by Patrícia Branco, Marilyn Brown, Andrés Fabián Henao Castro, Allen Linken, Aaron Lorenz, Richard Mohr, Margaret Mott, Andrea Pavoni, Jan M. Broekman, Nadirsyah Hosen, Sarah Marusek, John Brigham Edited by Sarah Marusek, John Brigham
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Publication date:
03 October 2017Length of book:
254 pagesPublisher
Lexington BooksISBN-13: 9781498535045
Street-Level Sovereignty: The Intersection of Space and Law is a collection of scholarship that considers the experience of law that is subject to social interpretation for its meaning and importance within the constitutive legal framework of race, deviance, property, and the communal investiture in health and happiness. This book examines the intersection of spatiality and law, through the construction of place, and how law is materially framed.
Law is everywhere, not just in courtrooms, police stations, or corporate firms. In this creative collection, Marusek and Brigham bring together fresh work that explores how law works in everyday spaces that have long been overlooked: in traffic, in bed, at a restaurant, an airport, a sports arena, while getting a haircut, listening to ambient noise, or even when simply laughing. The result is a transformative vision of law that foregrounds the sovereignty of the street in the twenty-first century.