Chronotopes of Law: Jurisdiction, Scale and Governance

by Mariana Valverde

Book Overview

This book develops a new framework for analyzing the spatio-temporal workings of law and other forms of governance. Chronotopes of Law argues that studies of law and governance can be reinvigorated by drawing on a bundle of quite heterogenous analytical tools that do not have a single provenance or a single political or normative aim but that work well in combination.

Analyses of legal temporality carried out by anthropologists...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138824860
• ISBN13: 9781138824867
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"