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Law and the Stranger (The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought) by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Law and the Stranger (The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought) about?
Law calls communities into being and constitutes the "we" it governs. This act of defining produces an outside as well as an inside, a border whose crossing is guarded, maintaining the identity, coherence, and integrity of the space and people within. Those wishing to enter must negotiate a complex terrain of defensive mechanisms, expectations, assumptions, and legal proscriptions. Essentially, law enforces the boundary between inside and outside in both physical and epistemological ways. Law and the Stranger explores the ways law identifies and responds to strangers within and across borders. It analyzes the ambiguous place strangers occupy in communities not their own and reflects on how dealing with strangers challenges the laws and communities that invite or parry them. As the book reveals, strangers are made through law, rather than born through accidents of geography.
Who reads Law and the Stranger (The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey
- Publisher
- SYANFORD LAW BOOKS
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780804775151
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Law, Philosophy, Humanities
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