Lawyers in a postmodern world : translation and transgression
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Lawyers in a postmodern world : translation and transgression
（New directions in criminology series）
Open University Press, 1994
- : hbk
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [286]-310) and index
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Description
How far are lawyers agents of the state or of capital? Are there ways in which they can work constructively or transformatively for the working class or the underpriviliged? What insights, if any, can a postmodernist analysis of legal discourse bring to these questions? "Lawyers' Work" explores how lawyers actively create the forms of power which they and others deploy. It examines how lawyers work within and for powerful institutions, and provides models for using their discursive skills with an for the powerless. This work should be of interest to scholars and students in social theory, law, criminology, social policy and political science.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Understanding lawyering: the symbol traders
- outlining a theory of legal practice. Part 2 Constituting capital and the state: legal creativity
- capital fractionalized
- blurred boundaries - the overlapping world of law, business and politics
- lawyers as constitutive of gender relations
- the forum should fit the fuse - the economics and politics of negotiated justice. Part 3 Towards prefigurative legal practices: miners and lawyers
- feminist legal scholarship and women's gendered lives
- paralegals and prefiguration - working in black townships towards a post-apartheid South Africa
- the contradictions of radical law practice.
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