TY  - BOOK
AU  - Howard,Matt
TI  - Law's Memories
T2  - Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies,
SN  - 9783031193880
U1  - 340.115 23
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Law and the social sciences
KW  - Collective memory
KW  - Law
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - History
KW  - Identity politics
KW  - Political sociology
KW  - Culture
KW  - Socio-Legal Studies
KW  - Memory Studies
KW  - Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History
KW  - Identity Politics
KW  - Political Sociology
KW  - Sociology of Culture
N1  - Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Law and memory -- Chapter 3: Memory, time, and law -- Chapter 4: Being and meaning: the performance of historical truth -- Chapter 5: Elasticity of co-ordinated belonging -- Chapter 6: Conclusion
N2  - This book discusses the relationship between law and memory and explores the ways in which memory can be thought of as contributing to legal socialization and legal meaning-making. Against a backdrop of critical legal pluralism which examines the distributedness of law(s), this book introduces the notion of mnemonic legality. It emphasises memory as a resource of law rather than an object of law, on the basis of how it substantiates senses of belonging and comes to frame inclusions and exclusions from a national community on the basis of linear-trajectory and growth narratives of nationhood. Overall, it explores the sensorial and affective foundations of law, implicating memory and perceptions of belonging within this process of creating legality and legitimacy. By identifying how memory comes to shape and inform notions of law, it contributes to legal consciousness research and to important questions informing much socio-legal research. Matt Howard is Lecturer in Law at the University of Kent, UK.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19388-0
ER  -