Spacing Law and Politics - The Constitution and Representation of the Juridical

List of contents

Introduction Spacing Law and Politics 1. Emotional Tropes in the Courtroom. On representation of affect and emotion in legal court proceedings 2. Achilles’ Wrath and the Law: Juridical Space(s), Striated and Smooth 3. Before the Temple of Justice: Reading Roman Law Reading 4. Factoring out Justice: Imaginaries of Community, Law, and the Political in Ambrogio Lorenzetti and Niccolò Machiavelli 5. The Spaces of Venice. Reading and Performing the Law in/of The Merchant of Venice 6. Mapping the Law of Strasbourg. Reading Old Maps of Strasbourg as Constituting Juridical Space and Representing Judicial Places 7. A Modern Trial. A Study of the Use of Video-Recorded Testimonies in the Swedish Court of Appeal and of Its Effects on Social Interaction and the Constitution of Judicial Space Concluding remarks. Becoming-Juridical

About the author

Leif Dahlberg is professor in Communication at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, and associate professor in Comparative Literature, Stockholm University, Sweden.

Summary

Examining the inherent spatiality of law, both theoretically and as social practice, this book presents a genealogical account of the the development of the juridical. It considers legal and philosophical texts, artistic and literary works, as well as judicial practices, to document a series of critical moments in the history of juridical space.

Product details

• Authors: Leif Dahlberg, Leif (Royal Institute of Technology Dahlberg, Dahlberg Leif
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781138570481
• ISBN: 978-1-138-57048-1
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Space, Materiality and the Normative
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; History, HISTORY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LAW / Legal History, LAW / Jurisprudence, LAW / Judicial Power, Legal History, Literary studies: general, Jurisprudence & general issues, Jurisprudence and general issues, Judicial powers, Legal systems: judges and judicial powers