Out of Place

Fieldwork and Positionality in Law and Society

Lynette J. Chua, Mark Fathi Massoud

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2024
• Topic: Law
• eBook ISBN:
  9781009338257
• Subtopic: Law Theory & Practice
• Index: Law

Out of Place tells a new history of the field of law and society through the experiences and fieldwork of successful writers from populations that academia has historically marginalized. Encouraging collective and transparent self-reflection on positionality, the volume features scholars from around the world who share how their out-of-place positionalities influenced their research questions, data collection, analysis, and writing in law and society. From China to Colombia, India to Indonesia, Singapore to South Africa, and the United Kingdom to the United States, these experts record how they conducted their fieldwork, how their privileges and disadvantages impacted their training and research, and what they learned about the law in the process. As the global field of law and society becomes more diverse and an interest in identity grows, Out of Place is a call to embrace the power of positionality. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title page
• Imprints page
• Epigraph
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• Preface
• Chapter One Introduction: The Power of Positionality
• Chapter Two Research as Accompaniment: Reflections on Objectivity, Ethics, and Emotions
• Chapter Three ''Pretty and Young'' in Places where People Get Killed in Broad Daylight
• Chapter Four Out of Place when Studying China's Sex Industry
• Chapter Five Feeling at Home Outside: Embracing Out-of-Placeness in the Study of Law and Resistance
• Chapter Six Out of Place in an Indian Court: Notes on Researching Rape in a District Court in Gujarat (1996-8)
• Chapter Seven At Odds with Everything around Me: Vulnerability Politics and Its (Out of) Place in the Socio-legal Academy
• Chapter Eight Trigueño International Law: On (Most of) the World Being (Always, Somehow) Out of Place
• Chapter Nine Becoming a Familiar Outsider: Multi-sited and Multi-temporal Research in Plural Legal Contexts
• Index