ABSTRACT
This chapter uses movement as method to develop a spatialised understanding of how registration is constitutive of our personal and collective identities. Anthropologists have provided rich insights into the materiality of documents, paper, and technology by exploring the everyday as a site of bureaucratic interaction. Although there is a rich potential for socio-legal studies to account for legal technologies in much the same way, registry architectures have, so far, been overlooked. My analysis is grounded in a case study of the Beaney House of Art & Knowledge—a community hub situated in the heart of Canterbury (UK). The lawscape approach that I adopt invokes the sense of registration as a form of list making to produce a detailed account of bureaucratic space drawing on a range of materials including architectural plans, council documents, and sensory experience. This chapter illustrates how movement as socio-legal method generates micro-level, granular, and sensory understandings of law in everyday life.
