Law and performance

by Douglas, Lawrence Sarat, Austin Umphrey, Martha Merrill

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"In considering law through the lens of performance studies, the contributors in this volume emphasize the embodied, affective, and reiterative qualities that move law off the printed page and into the thick world of lived experience. They consider the blurring of lines between performance and the enactment of law, the transformative exchanges between the law and its many and varied stagings, and the impact or resonance of performativity in situations where innocence and guilt may be determined…

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Full title :Law and performance / edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, Martha Merrill Umphrey.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2018

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of Massachusetts Press
Place of Publication:Amherst
Language:eng
Publication Date:2018

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Description:ix, 250 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm.

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ISBN:9781625343543, 162534354X, 9781625343550, 1625343558
oclc:on1008771705
LC Classification:K376
Dewey Decimal:340/.115

Introduction : law and/as performance / Martha Merrill Umphrey, Austin Sarat, and Lawrence Douglas -- Penitentiary performances : spectators, affecting scenes, and terrible apparitions in the nineteenth-century model prison / Julie Stone Peters -- "This is a trial, not a performance!" : staging the time of the law / Ryan Hartigan -- Reenactability / Ann Pellegrini and Karen Shimakawa -- Statements before and after arrests : performing at Law's Edge in Apartheid South Africa / Catherine M. Cole -- Freedom with silence : cryptoanalytics and the differend in the afterlives of legal things / Lara D. Nielsen -- Twelve notes on Ferguson : black performance and police power / Joshua Chambers-Letson.