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Socio-legal studies have had an ambivalent relationship with the
'legal' - one of its defining aspects, but at the same time one
that the discipline has sought to transcend or even leave behind.
While socio-legal studies benefit hugely from the insights, methods
and theories of other social science and humanity disciplines, the
contributions to Exploring the 'Legal' in Socio-Legal Studies
illustrate the value of a focus on the 'legal'. The chapters in
this book combine traditional legal materials and analyses with
other ways of engaging empirically with the 'legal'. They
illustrate the rich potential of the 'legal' as a site both for
theoretical and methodological reflection and for case study
analysis. Taken as a whole, this volume demonstrates that
methodological discussion is most helpful when rooted in empirical
cases, and that the best case studies also help us to develop our
methodologies. Bringing methodology and empirical analysis together
offers an opportunity to reflect on socio-legal studies and develop
the discipline in productive new directions.
Sexuality and the Politics of Violence offers a timely and critical exploration of issues of safety and security at the centre of responses to violence. Through a multi-disciplinary analysis, drawing on feminism, lesbian and gay studies, sociology, cultural geography, criminology and critical legal scholarship, the book offers to transform the way we understand and respond to the challenges raised by violence. It breaks new ground in its examination of the rhetoric and politics of violence, property, home, cosmopolitanism and stranger danger in the generation of safety and security.
Using interviews, focus groups and surveys with lesbians and gay men, Sexuality and the Politics of Violence draws upon 'real life' experiences of safety and security. It raises some fundamental challenges to the law and order politics of existing scholarship and activism on homophobic hate crime.
Contents: 1. Violence, Sexuality and Cultures and Spaces of Safety 2. Violence for Safety 3. Attachment to Hate: the Emotional Dimensions of Lesbian and Gay Crime Control 4. The Limits of Law and Order: Individual Responsibility 5. The Rhetoric and Politics of Property 6. Comfort and the Location of Safety, Home 7. Cosmopolitan Safety 8: Stranger Danger: The Uses of Estrangement and the Politics of Fear 9. Conclusion: The Challenges of Safety and Security
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