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The Politics of Juridification Mariano Croce

The Politics of Juridification By Mariano Croce

The Politics of Juridification by Mariano Croce


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This book contributes to debates about how politics is affected by the increasing relevance of judicial bodies to the administration of Western political communities. While most analyses portray juridification as a de-democratizing transferral of political authority to the courts, this book centres on the workable ambivalence of such a phenomenon.

The Politics of Juridification Summary

The Politics of Juridification by Mariano Croce

The Politics of Juridification offers a timely contribution to debates about how politics is being affected by the increasing relevance of judicial bodies to the daily administration of Western political communities. While most critical analyses portray juridification as a depoliticizing, de-democratizing transferral of political authority to the courts (whether national or international), this book centres on the workable ambivalence of such a far-reaching phenomenon. While juridification certainly intensifies the power and competences of judicial bodies to the disadvantage of representative political institutions, it cannot be easily reduced to the demise of democratic politics. By focusing on the multiple ways in which social agents make use of the law, The Politics of Juridification teases out the agential and transformative aspects of the various negotiations social agents engage with legal institutions with a view to obtaining political visibility. In particular, the book homes in on two seemingly distinct phenomena: on one hand, the regulation of sexuality and emerging kinship formations; on the other, the fragmentation of legal settings due to the claims to legal autonomy advanced by sub-state cultural and religious groups. By doing so, the book makes the case for an unexpected convergence between the struggles for legal recognition of sexual minorities and religious and cultural minorities. The conclusion is that juridification does entail normalization and favour the infiltration of law into the social realm. But because of its ambivalent nature, it can and does serve as an alternative vehicle for social change - one that attaches more importance to how social agents produce law on a daily basis and how this law permeates official legal orders.

About Mariano Croce

Mariano Croce is Assistant Professor of Political Philosophy at Sapienza Universita di Roma, Italy. His research includes theory of the state, legal and political institutionalism, legal pluralism and LGBTQIA studies. Among his books are The Legal Theory of Carl Schmitt (Routledge, 2013, with A. Salvatore) and Undoing Ties: Political Philosophy at the Waning of the State (Bloomsbury Academic, 2015, with A. Salvatore).

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. The legal circuit and the process of conversion

2. Traditional politics and the politics of juridification

3. Juridification: within and without institutions

Chapter 1

Juridification within institutions: the law of sex and kinship

1.1. The legal boundaries of admissible sexuality

1.2. Remoulding kinship: subversion or assimilation?

1.3. Filtering social practices

Chapter 2

Juridification without institutions: fragmenting the law

2.1. The post-secular turn

2.2. Fragmented jurisdictions and legal pluralities

Conclusion

1. As law-users make law

2. Two modes of political juridification

3. The political potential of legal creativity

Additional information

NPB9780415750134
9780415750134
041575013X
The Politics of Juridification by Mariano Croce
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2018-01-09
94
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