ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the boundaries that are created around spaces, the subject, and the state through legal processes and discourses of liberty. It outlines of how focusing on relationality and the dynamic, shifting processes and intra-actions between a number of agents provides an alternative critical vantage point to the traditional debates around liberty. The assemblage account developed through this book, drawing on spatial and relational dynamics, offers new ways to uncover the productive effects of current conceptual framings of liberty in law, as well as new perspectives for progressive legal and political theories seeking to disentangle themselves from these liberal logics. The chapter also discusses the problematic ways that liberty is understood in the mental capacity framework and the broader effects of this, linked to ideals of static materiality, liberal legal subjectivity, and the bounded state that have been shown to feature across the liberal legal landscape.
