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      Sensing Law book

      Edited BySheryl Hamilton, Diana Majury, Dawn Moore, Neil Sargent, Christiane Wilke
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2016
      eBook Published 29 November 2016
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315642116
      Pages 344
      eBook ISBN 9781315642116
      Subjects Humanities, Law, Social Sciences
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      Hamilton, S., Majury, D., Moore, D., Sargent, N., & Wilke, C. (Eds.). (2016). Sensing Law (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315642116

      ABSTRACT

      A rich collection of interdisciplinary essays, this book explores the question: what is to be found at the intersection of the sensorium and law’s empire? Examining the problem of how legal rationalities try to grasp what can only be sensed through the body, these essays problematize the Cartesian framework that has long separated the mind from the body, reason from feeling and the human from the animal. In doing so, they consider how the sensorium can operate, variously, as a tool of power or as a means of countering the exercise of regulatory force. The senses, it is argued, operate as a vector for the implication of subjects in legal webs, but also as a powerful site of resistance to legal definition and determination. From the sensorium of animals to technologically mediated perception, the ways in which the law senses and the ways in which senses are brought before the law invite a questioning of the categories of liberal humanism. And, as this volume demonstrates, this questioning opens up the both interesting and important possibility of imagining other sensual subjectivities.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |30 pages

      Introduction

      BySHERYL N. HAMILTON, DIANA MAJURY, DAWN MOORE

      part |2 pages

      Part I Experts and translation

      chapter 1|20 pages

      What it’s like: demonstrative evidence of subjective experience

      chapter 2|20 pages

      Law’s sensorium: on the media of law and the evidence of the senses in historical and cross-cultural perspective

      chapter 3|18 pages

      Seeing the similarities in songs: music plagiarism, forensic musicology and the translation of sound in the courtroom

      chapter 4|18 pages

      Visual logics of deduction: ocular presence and ocular distance in Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Purloined Letter’

      part |2 pages

      Part II Bodies

      chapter 5|22 pages

      How to make sense? An aesthesis of citizenship and legitimacy

      chapter 6|29 pages

      Legal sensibilities and the language of gesture in late-eighteenth-century British satirical prints

      chapter 7|17 pages

      The smell of neglect: a transcorporeal feminism for environmental justice

      chapter 8|16 pages

      Law’s sense of smell: odours and evictions at the Landlord and Tenant Board

      chapter 9|20 pages

      Sensing sexual assault: evidencing truth claims in the forensic sensorium

      part |2 pages

      Part III Space, place and subjectivities

      chapter 10|21 pages

      Sense of place and spirit of place in the Schubart Park case

      chapter 11|19 pages

      An empire of sound: sentience, sonar and sensory impudence

      chapter 12|23 pages

      The optics of war: seeing civilians, enacting distinctions, and visual crises in international law

      chapter 13|4 pages

      Invitations and exhortations: an epilogue

      BySHERYL N. HAMILTON
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