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Wall, Illan Rua (2021) The ordinary affects of law. Law, Culture and the Humanities . doi:10.1177/1743872119886509 ISSN 1743-8721.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/1743872119886509
Abstract
The article examines the affective dynamics of law in the everyday. It insists upon the importance of ‘the background’ for thinking about law. In the everyday cut and thrust of daily life, law tends to fade into the background. It becomes unobtrusive, functioning from the background by structuring the capacity to act. In other words, it functions affectively. Key to law’s functioning is its ability to also move out from the background in certain crucial moments. In this it becomes obtrusive, taking centre stage in such a way that its former position in the background becomes imperceptible. The movements from background to foreground and back again are essential to begin to grasp the manner in which law functions with and through affect. Using the work of Kathleen Stewart, Hans Lindahl and Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos the article insists upon the importance of the affective dynamics of law. Developing the idea of nestled affects helps us to understand the movements from background to foreground.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | K Law [Moys] > KA Jurisprudence | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Law -- Great Britain, Criminal justice, Administration of -- Great Britain, Courts -- Great Britain | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Law, Culture and the Humanities | ||||||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1743-8721 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 2021 | ||||||||
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DOI: | 10.1177/1743872119886509 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | Posted ahead of print. Wall, Illan Rua (2019) The ordinary affects of law. Law, Culture and the Humanities . (In Press) Copyright © 2019 The Author. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications https://journals.sagepub.com/home/lch | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 25 October 2019 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 25 October 2019 | ||||||||
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