1st Edition

Law, Registration, and the State Making Identities through Space, Place, and Movement

By Jess Smith Copyright 2024
138 Pages
by Routledge

138 Pages
by Routledge

138 Pages
by Routledge

This book provides an original and compelling analysis of registration as a dynamic process which makes and unmakes legal identities. Critical legal and socio-legal scholarship tends to assume that registration is a textually mediated act of statecraft which governs through the technology of writing. Taking a different approach, this book develops movement as socio-legal method to illustrate... Read more

1. Introduction 2. Registration as Tessellating Space 3. Registry Architecture 4. Spatial Machinery 5. Journeying with Law 6. Registering Life: Betwixt and Between

Biography

Jess Smith is Lecturer in Law at the University of Lincoln, UK.