Out of the Ordinary: Law, Power, Culture, and the Commonplace
| Autor: | Naomi Mezey |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
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050502 law
Michel foucault media_common.quotation_subject Lived experience 05 social sciences General Social Sciences Principle of legality 0506 political science Power (social and political) Work (electrical) State (polity) Law 050602 political science & public administration Narrative Sociology Everyday life 0505 law media_common |
| Zdroj: | Law & Social Inquiry. 26:145-167 |
| ISSN: | 1747-4469 0897-6546 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1747-4469.2001.tb00174.x |
| Popis: | Sometimes a work's intellectual influences reveal both its strengths and its shortcomings. This is certainly the case with Patricia Ewick and Susan Silbey's The Common Place of Law: Stories From Everyday Life, and its indebtedness to the thinking of Michel Foucault and Michel de Certeau. Taken together, Foucault and de Certeau's work suggests that investigations of law's power are most fruitful not at the level of legal institutions and the state but at the level of lived experience, where we can see how power is exercised, understood, and sometimes, resisted. This is, in essence, the narrative at the heart of The Common Place of Law, where two sociologists of law examine how law or legality (power that is at once institutional and embedded in day-to-day social practices) is recognized, resisted, and recon |
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