Intercultural Spaces of Law: Translating Invisibilities

This book proposes an interdisciplinary methodology for developing an intercultural use of law that includes cultural differences and their protection within legal discourse. It combines legal theory, anthropology, semiotics, and a cultural-geographic view called 'legal chorology' to show the extant continuity between categories and spaces of experience, and provides a methodology for making space and law reciprocally transformative to create an inclusive legal grammar.

Format: Hardback
Length: 427 pages
Publication date: 04 April 2023
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG

This book presents an innovative interdisciplinary approach to developing an intercultural understanding of law, aimed at incorporating cultural differences and their protection within legal discourse. This endeavor is founded on a comprehensive analysis of the sensory grammar tacitly embedded in categorizations. By seamlessly integrating the theoretical insights derived from legal theory, anthropology, and semiotics with a discerning interpretation of human rights as translational interfaces among diverse cultural spaces, the book achieves its objective. To bolster this transformative use of human rights, a unique cultural-geographic perspective known as 'legal chorology' is employed. Its primary mission is to unveil the enduring continuity between categories and spaces of experience, particularly between legal meanings and the spatial dimensions of people's lives.

Through the lens of legal chorology and the intercultural, translational application of human rights, the book offers a comprehensive methodology that demonstrates how to create a reciprocal relationship between space and law, ultimately fostering an inclusive legal grammar that bridges social and cultural disparities. The analysis encompasses a critical examination of opportunities for intercultural secularization, the potential for constructing a legal grammar of quotidian life that leads to an inclusive equidistance from differences rather than an unattainable neutrality or an all-encompassing universal legal ontology. Additionally, the book presents an interdisciplinary methodology for legal intercultural translation, a chorological reading of the interplay between human rights protection and lived spaces, and an intercultural and geo-semiotic exploration of a range of legal cases and contemporary issues, including indigenous peoples rights and the international protection of sacred places.

Weight: 814g
Dimension: 164 x 242 x 30 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783031274350
Edition number: 1st ed. 2023