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This book explores the conceptual spaces and socio-legal context
which mental capacity laws inhabit. It will be seen that these
norms are created and reproduced through the binaries that pervade
mental capacity laws in liberal legal jurisdictions- such as
capacity/incapacity; autonomy/paternalism; empowerment/protection;
carer/cared-for; disabled/non-disabled; public/private. Whilst on
one level the book demonstrates the pervasive reach of laws
questioning individuals mental capacity, within and beyond the
medical context which it is most commonly associated with, at a
deeper and perhaps more important level it challenges the
underlying norms and assumptions underpinning the very idea of
mental capacity, and reflects outwards on the transformative
potential of these realisations for other areas of law. In doing
so, whilst the book offers lessons for mental capacity law
scholarship in terms of reform efforts at both domestic and
internationals levels, it also offers ways to develop our
understandings of a range of linked legal, policy and theoretical
concepts. In so doing, it offers new critical vantage points for
both legal critique and conceptual change beyond mental capacity
law. The book will be of interest to researchers in mental capacity
law, disability law and socio-legal studies as well as critical
geographers and disability studies scholars.
This book explores the series of issues that emerge at the
intersection of disability, care and family law. Disability studies
is an area of increasing academic interest. In addition to a
subject in its own right, there has been growing concern to ensure
that mainstream subjects diversify and include marginalised voices,
including those of disabled people. Family law in modern times is
often based on an "able-bodied autonomous norm" but can fit less
well with the complexities of living with disability. In response,
this book addresses a range of important and highly topical issues:
whether care proceedings are used too often in cases where parents
have disabilities; how the law should respond to children who care
for disabled parents - and the care of older family members with
disabilities. It also considers the challenges posed by the UN
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, particularly
around the different institutional and state responsibilities
captured in the Convention, and around decision-making for both
disabled adults and children. This interdisciplinary collection -
with contributors from law, criminology, sociology and social
policy as well as from policy and activist backgrounds - will
appeal to academic family lawyers and disability scholars as well
as students interested in issues around family law, disability and
care.
This book explores the intersecting issues relating the phenomenon
of ageing to gender and family law. The latter has tended to focus
mainly on family life in young and middle age; and, indeed, the
issues of childhood and parenting are key in many family law texts.
Family life for older members has, then, been largely neglected;
addressing this neglect, the current volume explores how the issues
which might be important for younger people are not necessarily the
same as those for older people. The significance of family, the
nature of family life, and the understanding of self in terms of
one's relationships, tend to change over the life course. For
example, the state may play an increasing role in the lives of
older people - as access to services, involvement in work and the
community, the ability to live independently, and to form or
maintain caring relationships, are all impacted by law and policy.
This collection therefore challenges the standard models of family
life and family law that have been developed within a
child/parent-centred paradigm, and which may require rethinking in
the turn to family life in old age. Interdisciplinary in its scope
and orientation, this book will appeal not just to academic family
lawyers and students interested in issues around family law,
ageing, gender, and care; but also to sociologists and ethicists
working in these areas.
This book explores the series of issues that emerge at the
intersection of disability, care and family law. Disability studies
is an area of increasing academic interest. In addition to a
subject in its own right, there has been growing concern to ensure
that mainstream subjects diversify and include marginalised voices,
including those of disabled people. Family law in modern times is
often based on an "able-bodied autonomous norm" but can fit less
well with the complexities of living with disability. In response,
this book addresses a range of important and highly topical issues:
whether care proceedings are used too often in cases where parents
have disabilities; how the law should respond to children who care
for disabled parents - and the care of older family members with
disabilities. It also considers the challenges posed by the UN
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, particularly
around the different institutional and state responsibilities
captured in the Convention, and around decision-making for both
disabled adults and children. This interdisciplinary collection -
with contributors from law, criminology, sociology and social
policy as well as from policy and activist backgrounds - will
appeal to academic family lawyers and disability scholars as well
as students interested in issues around family law, disability and
care.
This book explores the conceptual spaces and socio-legal context
which mental capacity laws inhabit. It will be seen that these
norms are created and reproduced through the binaries that pervade
mental capacity laws in liberal legal jurisdictions- such as
capacity/incapacity; autonomy/paternalism; empowerment/protection;
carer/cared-for; disabled/non-disabled; public/private. Whilst on
one level the book demonstrates the pervasive reach of laws
questioning individuals mental capacity, within and beyond the
medical context which it is most commonly associated with, at a
deeper and perhaps more important level it challenges the
underlying norms and assumptions underpinning the very idea of
mental capacity, and reflects outwards on the transformative
potential of these realisations for other areas of law. In doing
so, whilst the book offers lessons for mental capacity law
scholarship in terms of reform efforts at both domestic and
internationals levels, it also offers ways to develop our
understandings of a range of linked legal, policy and theoretical
concepts. In so doing, it offers new critical vantage points for
both legal critique and conceptual change beyond mental capacity
law. The book will be of interest to researchers in mental capacity
law, disability law and socio-legal studies as well as critical
geographers and disability studies scholars.
This book explores the intersecting issues relating the phenomenon
of ageing to gender and family law. The latter has tended to focus
mainly on family life in young and middle age; and, indeed, the
issues of childhood and parenting are key in many family law texts.
Family life for older members has, then, been largely neglected;
addressing this neglect, the current volume explores how the issues
which might be important for younger people are not necessarily the
same as those for older people. The significance of family, the
nature of family life, and the understanding of self in terms of
one's relationships, tend to change over the life course. For
example, the state may play an increasing role in the lives of
older people - as access to services, involvement in work and the
community, the ability to live independently, and to form or
maintain caring relationships, are all impacted by law and policy.
This collection therefore challenges the standard models of family
life and family law that have been developed within a
child/parent-centred paradigm, and which may require rethinking in
the turn to family life in old age. Interdisciplinary in its scope
and orientation, this book will appeal not just to academic family
lawyers and students interested in issues around family law,
ageing, gender, and care; but also to sociologists and ethicists
working in these areas.
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