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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... Urban Disorder 141 CHAPTER SEVEN “Common Knowledge Must Enter the Equation Somewhere”: Knowledge as Responsibility 167 CHAPTER EIGHT Racial Masquerades: White Inquiries into “the Indian Style of Life” 193 CHAPTER NINE Conclusion 222 ...
... urban order and disorder—in and through the work of state officials, lawyers, and judges. But it is more a sociology of law in action than a sociology of law in the books: it pays just as much attention to how morality-squad officers ...
... urban gay villages (see chapter 5), neither particular acts nor individual psychic identity are at issue. Like ethnic communities, the gay community is regarded as characterized by a collective preference for certain urban spaces, for ...
... urban spaces, such as pubs on weekend evenings, discussed in chapter 6— expert scientific knowledges are almost never determinative. THE “ANALYTICAL MIND” OR FORENSIC GAZE Socio-legal scholarship on police work has tended to emphasize ...
... urban-specific human rights laws thought to further not universal rights but the “special” interests of the community of white urban gay yuppies. Moving from sexual to drinking lifestyles, in chapter 6 we consider the question of “urban ...
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