Bodies : exploring fluid boundaries / / Robyn Longhurst

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910958045603321
• Autore: Longhurst Robyn <1962->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2001
• ISBN: 951-39-0424-5; 1-134-65691-2; 0-203-19360-1; 0-203-28695-2; 1-280-32662-X; 1-134-65692-0
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (177 p.)
• Collana: Critical geographies ; ; 11
• Disciplina: 306.4
• Soggetti: Human body - Social aspects; Human body - Symbolic aspects; Human geography; Feminist theory
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 148-159) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of tables; List of plates; Acknowledgements; Bodily openings; 'Corporeographies'; Pregnant bodies in public places; Men's bodies and bathrooms; Managing managerial bodies; Some thoughts on close(t) spaces; Appendix: the fieldwork; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "Geography has recently seen something of a 'body craze'. The politics that surround bodies and spaces are increasingly being held up to scrutiny. Despite this, the 'leaky', 'messy' zones between the inside and outside of bodies and their resulting spatial relationships, remain largely unexamined in the discipline." "This book revolves around three case studies - pregnant bodies in public places, men's bodies in domestic toilets and bathrooms, managers' bodies in Central Business Districts. The pregnant body threatens to expel matter from inside. It is often described as 'ugly' or as 'matter out of place'. Geographers have ignored men's bodies in domestic toilets and bathrooms because these ; places are abject sights/sites where bodily boundaries are broken and then made solid again. Female and male managers in Central Business Districts wear tailored, dark coloured business suits, that give the appearance of a body which is impervious to leakage or penetration." "The case studies illustrate that bodies and spaces are socially constructed and yet have an undeniable materiality and fluidity. Ignoring the everyday materiality of bodies that 'leak' and 'seep' is not a harmless omission, rather it contains a political imperative that helps keep masculinism intact."

Reasoning with law / / Andrew Halpin

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910972855303321
• Autore: Halpin Andrew (Law teacher)
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; Portland, Oregon : , : Hart Publishing, , 2001
• ISBN: 9786610808076; 9781472562463; 1472562461; 9781280808074; 1280808071; 9781847310644; 1847310648
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (210 p.)
• Disciplina: 340/.1
• Soggetti: Law - Interpretation and construction; Law - Language; Law - Methodology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [183]-193) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Introduction -- Part I: Preliminary Studies. 2. Law, Theory And Practice: Conflicting Perspectives? ; 3. Law, Autonomy, And Reason ; 4. A Study On The Judicial Role ; 5. Excluded Middles, Right Answers And Vagueness -- Part II: Reasoning With Law. 6. The Uses Of Words ; 7. Some Themes From Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations ; 8. An ; Annex On Realism ; 9. Words And Concepts ; 10. Implications.
• Sommario/riassunto: "The reader is invited to follow a route that visits Fish's view of theory and practice,Raz's legal reasoning thesis, theoretical models of judicial review, Dworkin's right answer thesis, the law of the excluded middle and Lukasiewicz's development of three-valued logic, Wittgenstein's language games, and Moore's metaphysical realism. The destination is the practice at the heart of legal reasoning. It is suggested that this manifests the way in which the limitations of language and the incompleteness of human experience allow the opportunity for coherent development of the law and at the same time produce an inherent incoherence within the law. The central part of the book seeks to demonstrate how the problems of understanding legal reasoning replicate difficulties encountered in the philosophy of language, but challenges the attempts that have been made to harness approaches from within that discipline to illuminate legal reasoning. Instead it is argued that law provides an unrivalled test-bed for examining the limits of the capacity of our words, and that the study of law may be used to confront in a robust and illuminating manner the limitations of that discipline. The final chapter considers some of the implications of recognising the incoherence at the heart of legal reasoning, commenting on an institutional approach to law, the legitimacy of law, legal definitions, different approaches to legal reasoning, the role of appellate courts, the general possibility of providing a theoretical model of law, the use of legal rules, and the nature of law's critical aperture. The book should be of interest to advanced undergraduate students (particularly on jurisprudence courses), postgraduate students, academics, and practitioners concerned to reflect on the nature of the discipline they practice."--Bloomsbury Publishing.