Exploring the law/bodies/space regulatory conundrum
Exploring the law/bodies/space regulatory conundrum
This chapter explores the possibilities for a historically informed socio-legal engagement with law and the body in the context of the regulation of housing space. Its aim is to reveal what law obscures, the human body as it constitutes and is constituted by the law. The starting point is a moment in what I describe as a liminal legal space, when the interrelationship between law and the body is unexpectedly revealed. It then tracks the processes by which that moment might materialise as a coherent and theoretically informed piece of research, noting choices made, the influences upon those choices and the consequences, as well as the closures and deferrals which are an inevitable part of the research/writing trajectory. At the same time, the chapter seeks to acknowledge some of the practical/pragmatic realities of the writing/research process, not least editorial focus, and resource constraints. The chapter is not a blueprint for research but a tentative and personal reflection on the complexities of interdisciplinary socio-legal work.
Governance, Housing, Inequality, Liminality, Socio-legal, Urban space
53-71
Carr, Helen
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Carr, Helen
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Carr, Helen
(2022)
Exploring the law/bodies/space regulatory conundrum.
In,
Herman, Didi and Parsley, Connal
(eds.)
Interdisciplinarities: Research Process, Method, and the Body of Law.
(Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies)
Palgrave Macmillan, .
(doi:10.1007/978-3-030-89297-5_5).
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This chapter explores the possibilities for a historically informed socio-legal engagement with law and the body in the context of the regulation of housing space. Its aim is to reveal what law obscures, the human body as it constitutes and is constituted by the law. The starting point is a moment in what I describe as a liminal legal space, when the interrelationship between law and the body is unexpectedly revealed. It then tracks the processes by which that moment might materialise as a coherent and theoretically informed piece of research, noting choices made, the influences upon those choices and the consequences, as well as the closures and deferrals which are an inevitable part of the research/writing trajectory. At the same time, the chapter seeks to acknowledge some of the practical/pragmatic realities of the writing/research process, not least editorial focus, and resource constraints. The chapter is not a blueprint for research but a tentative and personal reflection on the complexities of interdisciplinary socio-legal work.
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Governance, Housing, Inequality, Liminality, Socio-legal, Urban space
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Didi Herman
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Connal Parsley
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