ABSTRACT

Research on law's relationship with time has flourished over the past decade. This edited collection aims to put law and time scholarship into wider context, advancing conversations on time and temporalities between socio-legal scholars, anthropologists, sociologists, geographers and historians. Through a diverse range of contributions, the collection explores how legal modalities of time emerge and have effects within wider clusters of social and political action. Themes include: law’s diverse roles in maintaining linear historicist models of time; law’s participation in the materialisation of times; and the unsteady effects of temporal pluralism and polytemporalities in law. De-naturalising the ‘time’ in law and time scholarship, this collection positions time as something that can be enacted and materialised as well as experienced, with distinct implications for questions of social justice.

The Introduction and Chapter 6 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at https://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. 

 

 

chapter |28 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|29 pages

‘No. I won’t go back’

National time, trauma and legacies of symphysiotomy in Ireland 1

chapter 4|15 pages

On delay and duration

Law’s temporal orders in historical child sexual abuse cases

chapter 5|20 pages

‘Give us his name’

Time, law and language in a settler colony

chapter 7|17 pages

Making land liquid

On time and title registration

chapter 8|17 pages

Regulating the ‘half-timer’ in colonial India

Factory legislation, its anomalies and resistance

chapter 9|17 pages

Work-time technology and unpaid labour in paid care work

A socio-legal analysis of employment contracts and electronic monitoring

chapter 10|16 pages

Standards in the shadows for everyone to see

The supranational regulation of time and the concern over temporal pluralism

chapter 11|17 pages

Energy governance, risk and temporality

The construction of energy time through law and regulation

chapter 12|18 pages

Doing times, doing truths

The legal case file as a folded object

chapter 13|12 pages

Topological time, law, and subjectivity

A description in five folds