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Violence, Imagination, and Resistance
Katrin Roots
其他書名
Socio-legal Interrogations of Power
出版
Athabasca University Press
, 2023-05-25
主題
Law / Judicial Power
Law / Civil Rights
Law / Gender & the Law
Social Science / Sociology / General
Law / General
ISBN
1771993669
9781771993661
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=curGEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Much of the discussion of social transformation and resistance in socio-legal studies centres around the question of whether and how the law can be used to achieve practical change. However, the editors of this volume argue that it will never be possible to enact change through the law because it is inseparable from violence, be it metaphysical, social, or political. They posit that a “just world,” free from oppressive power relations, requires us to imagine communities where the state and its law cease to exist. Contributors address the underexplored questions of what alternatives to law could look like: how communities could organize their everyday lives, and how they could address social and interpersonal conflicts outside of an apparatus of violence. These essays contribute to the ongoing interrogation of settler colonialism, racism, and structural violence in Canada by demonstrating how to expose the violence the law produces, how to deconstruct law’s power, and, finally, how to identify modes of resistance that have transformative potential.