Law's Dream of a Common KnowledgeIf knowledge is power, then the power of law can be studied through the lens of knowledge. This book opens up a substantive new area of legal research--knowledge production--and presents a series of case studies showing that the hybridity and eclecticism of legal knowledge processes make it unfruitful to ask questions such as, "Is law becoming more dominated by science?" Mariana Valverde argues that legal decision making cannot be understood if one counterposes science and technology, on the one hand, to common knowledge and common sense on the other. The case studies of law's flexible collage of knowledges range from determinations of drunkenness made by liquor licensing inspectors and by police, through police testimony in "indecency" cases, to how judges define the "truth" of sexuality and the harm that obscenity poses to communities. |
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... as Responsibility 167 CHAPTER EIGHT Racial Masquerades: White Inquiries into “the Indian Style of Life” 193 CHAPTER NINE Conclusion 222 Bibliography 229 Index 241 ✦ Contrary to the heroic myth of the scholar laboring.
... race theory. But like all frameworks, it has its limits, and these have become more visible in recent years. The inability of this framework to see what Luhmann and Teubner see—law's active role in constituting powers and knowledges—has ...
... race theorists—who believe that the only problem with the Enlightenment quest for Truth was that the wrong people were in charge. But it is not necessary to replace one set of grand theorists with another, more politically grounded set ...
... race scholars have demonstrated not only that law is an important tool of colonialism but also that whiteness is, in part, a legal construct. This type of inquiry into the interests being furthered through the apparently neutral ...
... racial identity exist in a large gray area whose boundaries are not clearly marked either in law or in most moral codes. One way of designating the field from which the empirical studies in this book have been drawn is to remember that ...
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