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Law and Resistance: Toward a Performative Epistemology of the Political Trial
Law and Resistance: Toward a Performative Epistemology of the Political Trial
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The book explores the potential of law as a counter-power and counter-discourse against sovereignty, focusing on the judicial apparatus and the concept of the political or show trial. It argues that these trials reveal a crisis of law and sovereignty and enable a politics of resistance by uncovering a performative that contingently conditions and breaks open laws otherwise closed normativity.
Format: Hardback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 01 December 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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The book delves into the intricate relationship between power and resistance, drawing upon Michel Foucault's genealogical analysis. It poses a fundamental question: Is there something inherent in the nature of law, encompassing its discursive and institutional dynamics, spatial, material, and temporal coordinates, conceptual categories, claims, mechanisms, and processes, that sets it apart from merely being an instrument and armature of power? If those in power can harness the tools of law and justice to achieve their political objectives, does this not suggest that there are potential avenues for fresh articulations within these devices?
The book argues that there exist discursive, spatial, and temporal resources that can be reconfigured and redeployed as a counter-power and counter-discourse against sovereignty. It centers its attention on the judicial apparatus, particularly the concept of the political or show trial. By examining landmark political trials such as those of Nelson Mandela, Marwan Barghouti, and Bobby Seale, the book highlights a crisis of law and sovereignty. It suggests that the political trial manifests the submerged crisis of sovereignty, permeating the normative structures of the system.
In response to this crisis, the book explores the various ways in which a politics of resistance is enabled within the courtroom. It uncovers a performative logic that contingently conditions and disrupts laws that would otherwise remain closed within the realm of normativity. Through this analysis, the book sheds light on the potential for resistance and transformation within the legal sphere
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Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781138693951
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