1st Edition

Digesting the Public Sphere

Edited By Sarah Marusek Copyright 2018
136 Pages
by Routledge

136 Pages
by Routledge

136 Pages
by Routledge

In the routine spectrum of our lives, we inhabit the public sphere. Whether in the street, the shopping center, or on the bus, we engage with the empowered, the disempowered, the omitted, and the powerful. Within the public sphere, the notion of public involves a complexity of approaches to aspects of everyday practices of power, performance, and place. Through these approaches, that which is... Read more

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Biography

Sarah Marusek is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Hawai‘i Hilo, USA. Her research and teaching interests in jurisprudence include legal geography, legal semiotics, and constitutive legal theory.