Spaces of Law and Custom Space, Materiality and the Normative Series
Coordonnateurs : Frezet Edoardo, Goetzmann Marc, Mason Luke
This collection brings together a carefully curated selection of researchers from law, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, history, social ontology and international relations, in order to examine how law and custom interact within specific material and spatial contexts.
Normativity develops within these contexts, while also shaping them. This complex relationship exists within all physical places from traditional agrarian spaces to the modern shifting post-industrial workplace. The contributions gathered together in this volume explore numerous examples of such spaces from different disciplinary perspectives to interrogate the dynamic relationship between custom and law, and the material spaces they inhabit. While there are a dynamic series of conclusions regarding this relationship in different material realities, a common theme is pursued throughout: a proper understanding of law and custom stems from their material locatedness within the power dynamics of particular spaces, which, in turn, are reflexively shaped by that same normativity. The book thus generates an account of the locatedness of law and custom, and, indeed, of custom as a source of law. In this way, it provides a series of linked explorations of normative spaces, but, more fundamentally, it also furnishes a cross-disciplinary toolkit of concepts and critical tools for understanding law and custom, and their relationship.
As the diversity of the contributors indicates, this book will be of great interest to legal theorists of different traditions, also legal historians and anthropologists, as well as sociologists, historians, geographers and developmental economists.
Edoardo Frezet works at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Nice.
Marc Goetzmann works at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Nice.
Luke Mason is at the School of Law, Birmingham City University.
Date de parution : 01-2023
15.6x23.4 cm
Date de parution : 07-2021
15.6x23.4 cm
Thèmes de Spaces of Law and Custom :
Mots-clés :
Customary Law; Vice Versa; Kanak Societies; Le Meur; Customary Land; Kanak People; Secondary Rules; Dak Lak; Colonial Administration; Positive Law; Company Customs; Institutional Layer; Oral Custom; Formal Normative Fact; Existential Dependence; Hart’s Scheme; Young Man; Mount Meru; Deep Conventions; Gender Reassignment; Customary Court; Olivier De Sardan; Normative Facts; Damnum Absque Injuria; French Cour De Cassation