Carolina Vestena
We @Sonja_Buckel and @maxpichl wrote again about legal struggles and the emancipatory potential of legal mobilization by social movements and civil society. This time we did it in English and for the Social & Legal Studies Journal: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09646639231153783
May 6, 2023 at 7:51amWeb
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Our departure points are the debates on strategic litigation and legal mobilisation, with which we critically engage to develop a social-theory perspective on legal struggles.
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Firstly, we debate the contributions of the first generation of the Critical Theory to understand the embeddedness of legal struggles in broader societal (and capitalist) dynamics, which are marked by multidimensional forms of domination.
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Following that, we examine the specificities of the legal form with Marx, Bourdieu and others and go to a meso-level analysing the role of actors and strategies in legal struggles. Here we engage in debates on law and social movements and critical lawyering.
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Our conclusions point to the structural distinctions and selectivities which define the juridical field in capitalist societies and also the conditions of possibility of political struggles using the law.
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