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Making sense of law: pungency, feel and rhythm
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Mulcahy, L and Rowden, E and Orr, K, Making sense of law: pungency, feel and rhythm, Law, Culture and the Humanities, 14, (2) pp. 199-201. ISSN 1743-9752 (2018) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.1177/1743872115623173
Abstract
Socio-legal and critical scholars have long argued that lawyers’ obsession with the word
and text limits their appreciation of how law is experienced, or authority is generated,
through touch, smell, sight and sound. At the same time, architectural scholars and art
historians have contended that the sensory bias of their disciplines towards sight is problematic
because it can serve to disengage habitable space and images from a richer experience
of their particular place and context. The articles in this issue of Law, Culture and
the Humanities argue for the need to explore the phenomenology of law by attending to
a panoply of sensory dynamics. By facilitating a broader engagement with experiences
of legal spaces, concepts, objects, procedures and their regulation it seeks to consider
how spatial experience, scale, depth, sound and tactility inform experiences of substantive
law, legal rituals and justice procedures. In short, this special issue seeks to examine
how law and the things and processes it controls look, smell and sound.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | law, sensory dynamics, legal experience |
Research Division: | Built Environment and Design |
Research Group: | Architecture |
Research Field: | Architectural history, theory and criticism |
Objective Division: | Law, Politics and Community Services |
Objective Group: | Justice and the law |
Objective Field: | Justice and the law not elsewhere classified |
UTAS Author: | Orr, K (Professor Kirsten Orr) |
ID Code: | 107506 |
Year Published: | 2018 (online first 2016) |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 2 |
Deposited By: | Architecture |
Deposited On: | 2016-03-17 |
Last Modified: | 2018-08-29 |
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