The Ethnography Collaborative Research Network within the Law and Society Association is sponsoring several panels and events of interest to anthropologists. APLA is featuring a preview of the panels and papers as a guide to ethnography-oriented events at this year’s meeting in New Orleans.
Following the Law: Ethnographies of Compliance and Legal Obligation
Friday, June 3rd: 12:45 – 2:30 PM
NOLA Marriott, Balcony N (4th Floor)
Wittingly or not, it is still common to take “following the law” for granted. This implies a set of assumptions about law, legal meaning, and behavior: that laws “mean what they say”, that “following” or “obeying” the law is an uncomplicated, de facto, normative process. The papers on this panel offer an alternative view, one in which the act of following the law is not such a simple task, and deciding if a law is being followed becomes quite difficult…
Ethnographic Explorations of Illegalities, Penality, and Risk/Security Part I
Thursday, June 2nd 12:45-2:30pm
NOLA Marriott Balcony M (4th floor)
These three linked sessions present detailed ethnographic examinations of the legal governance of crime, punishment, risk and security. Papers in Part I, presented here, consider efforts to resist and reform law, challenging spatial, social, and legal relations…
Ethnographic Explorations of Illegalities, Penality, and Risk/Security Part I
Thursday, June 2nd 2:45-4:30pm
Balcony M (4th floor)
These three linked sessions present detailed ethnographic examinations of the legal governance of crime, punishment, risk and security. Papers in Part II, presented here, consider the racial, gendered, and class dynamics of mass incarceration, and broader carceral fields…
Ethnographic Explorations of Illegalities, Penality, and Risk/Security Part III
Friday, June 3rd 10:15am-12pm
Balcony N (4th floor)
These three linked sessions present detailed ethnographic examinations of the legal governance of crime, punishment, risk and security. Papers in Part III, presented here, explore the subjective dimensions of law and politics in situations where the contours of legality are contested and transformed…
From Questions of Belonging to Questions of Excess
Thursday, June 2nd 8:15 AM – 10:00 AM
NOLA Marriott Balcony M (4th floor)
This panel features papers that unpack the place of law across spaces of political mobilization, identity formation, securitization, and incarceration. They ask: What is the place of law in these spaces? How do conditions of social change exceed law? Can a shift away from law as our primary object of inquiry lend to new directions in socio-legal exploration?
Critical Police Studies I
Saturday, June 4th 2:45-4:30PM
NOLA Marriott Balcony M (4th floor)
The widespread protests that followed the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014 and Freddie Gray in Baltimore, Maryland in 2015 capture the controversial nature of policing in ethnically and racially marginalized communities, in the United States and abroad.
Critical Police Studies II
Saturday, June 4th 4:45-6:30 PM
NOLA Marriott Balcony M (4th floor)
These panels bring together scholars in the emerging subfield of “critical police studies.” CPS scholars use qualitative methods and draw on a range of data sources to interrogate the past and present role of police in U.S. society, and critically examine the dynamics of race and class…
Languages and Practices of Legality
Thursday, June 2nd 10:15 AM – 12:00 PM
NOLA Marriott Balcony M (4th floor)
The Ethnography Collaborative Research Network within the Law and Society Association is sponsoring several panels and events of interest to anthropologists. APLA is featuring a preview of the panels and papers as a guide to ethnography-oriented events at next week’s meeting in New Orleans.
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