Out of Place: Fieldwork and Positionality in Law and Society

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Out of Place: Fieldwork and Positionality in Law and Society

Edited by Lynette J. Chua · Mark Fathi Massoud
Cambridge University Press February 2025

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9781009338226
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
February 2025
Format
Paperback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Out of Place tells a new history of the field of law and society through the experiences and fieldwork of successful writers from populations that academia has historically marginalized. Encouraging collective and transparent self-reflection on positionality, the volume features scholars from around the world who share how their out-of-place positionalities influenced their research questions, data collection, analysis, and writing in law and society. From China to Colombia, India to Indonesia, Singapore to South Africa, and the United Kingdom to the United States, these experts record how they conducted their fieldwork, how their privileges and disadvantages impacted their training and research, and what they learned about the law in the process. As the global field of law and society becomes more diverse and an interest in identity grows, Out of Place is a call to embrace the power of positionality.

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: the power of positionality - Mark Fathi Massoud
2. Research as accompaniment: reflections on objectivity, ethics, and emotions - Leisy J. Abrego
3. Pretty and young in places where people get killed in broad daylight - Sindiso Mnisi Weeks
4. Out of place studying China's sex industry - Margaret L. Boittin
5. Feeling at home outside: embracing out-of-placeness in the study of law and resistance - Lynette J. Chua
6. Out of place in an Indian court: notes on researching rape in a district court in gujarat (1996-1998) - Pratiksha Baxi
7. At odds with everything around me: vulnerability politics and its (out of) place in the socio-legal academy - Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen
8. Trigueño International law: on (most of) the world being (always, somehow) out of place - Luis Eslava
9. Becoming a familiar outsider: multi-sited and multi-temporal research in plural legal contexts - Keebet von Benda-Beckmann
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