Spaces of Law and Custom

Frezet, E, Goetzmann, M and Mason, L. (ed.) 2021. Spaces of Law and Custom. Routledge.

TitleSpaces of Law and Custom
EditorsFrezet, E, Goetzmann, M and Mason, L.
Abstract

This collection brings together a carefully curated selection of researchers from law, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, history, social ontology and international relations, in order to examine how law and custom interact within specific material and spatial contexts.

Normativity develops within these contexts, while also shaping them. This complex relationship exists within all physical places from traditional agrarian spaces to the modern shifting post-industrial workplace. The contributions gathered together in this volume explore numerous examples of such spaces from different disciplinary perspectives to interrogate the dynamic relationship between custom and law, and the material spaces they inhabit. While there are a dynamic series of conclusions regarding this relationship in different material realities, a common theme is pursued throughout: a proper understanding of law and custom stems from their material locatedness within the power dynamics of particular spaces, which, in turn, are reflexively shaped by that same normativity. The book thus generates an account of the locatedness of law and custom, and, indeed, of custom as a source of law. In this way, it provides a series of linked explorations of normative spaces, but, more fundamentally, it also furnishes a cross-disciplinary toolkit of concepts and critical tools for understanding law and custom, and their relationship.

As the diversity of the contributors indicates, this book will be of great interest to legal theorists of different traditions, also legal historians and anthropologists, as well as sociologists, historians, geographers and developmental economists.

KeywordsLaw
Custom
Anthropology
Sociology
History
Year2021
PublisherRoutledge
Publication dates
Published15 Jul 2021
ISBN9780367344498
9780429330728
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429330728

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