Chronotopes of Law

Jurisdiction, Scale and Governance

Mariana Valverde

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781134714797
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: Law Theory & Practice
• Index: Law

This book develops a new framework for analyzing the spatio-temporal workings of law and other forms of governance. Chronotopes of Law argues that studies of law and governance can be reinvigorated by drawing on a bundle of quite heterogenous analytical tools that do not have a single provenance or a single political or normative aim but that work well in combination.

Analyses of legal temporality carried out by anthropologists and studies of law and space undertaken by geographers and legal scholars have proliferated in recent years, but these research traditions have remained largely separate. By adapting notions such as intertextuality, dialogism, and the 'chronotope' from Mikhail Bakhtin, notions designed specifically to synthesize considerations of space and time in a framework that is open-ended, interactive and dynamic, Mariana Valverde develops an anti-metaphysical theory and method for legal studies. This approach will be useful both to theorists and to researchers seeking to illuminate the actual workings of law and other forms of governance. Indeed, a key aim of the book is to break down the institutional and disciplinary barriers that prevent theorists from learning from empirical studies and viceversa.

Written by one of the foremost sociolegal scholars writing today, this theoretically innovative work constitutes a major contribution to contemporary studies in law and society.

Social Justice

Series editors:

Sarah Keenan

SOAS, UK

Davina Cooper

University of Kent, UK

Sarah Lamble

Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

Social Justice is a new, theoretically engaged, interdisciplinary series exploring the changing values, politics and institutional forms through which claims for equality, democracy and liberation are expressed, manifested and fought over in the contemporary world. The series addresses a range of contexts from transnational political fora, to nation-state and regional controversies, to small-scale social experiments. At its heart is a concern, and inter-disciplinary engagement with, the present and future politics of power, as constituted through territory, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, economics, ecology and culture.

Foregrounding struggle, imagined alternatives and the embedding of new norms, Social Justice critically explores how change is wrought through law and governance, everyday social and bodily practices, dissident knowledges, and movements for citizenship, belonging, and reinvented community.

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Chronotopes of Law

Jurisdiction, Scale and Governance

Mariana Valverde

First published 2015

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Valverde, Mariana, 1955- author.

Chronotopes of law: jurisdiction, scale, and governance / Mariana Valverde.

pages cm. — (Social justice)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-415-71558-4 (hardback) — ISBN 978-1-315-88161-4

(ebk) 1. Sociological jurisprudence. 2. Law—Philosophy.

3. Jurisdiction. I. Title.

K370.V36 2014

340’.115—dc23

2014021747

ISBN: 978-0-415-71558-4 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-138-82486-7 (pbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-88161-4 (ebk)

DOI: 10.4324/9781315881614

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Contents

• Acknowledgements
• 1 Borrowing Bakhtin: sociolegal studies in a new key
• 2 Theorizing the space and time of law
• 3 Scale, mood, and jurisdiction: a framework for sociolegal studies
• 4 Scale and jurisdiction in feminist legal theory: a case study
• 5 The non-modern chronotope of ‘the honour of the Crown’ in contemporary Canadian law
• 6 Chronotopes of security
• Conclusion
• Index