Spatial Vulnerability at the Spectral Threshold
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Emma Patchett
Emma Patchett is a Tutor and an independent postdoctoral researcher based at the Unversity of Leeds. She has previously conducted research at the Centre for Excellence in Law, Identity and the European Narratives at the University of Helsinki; the Käte Hamburger Kolleg “Recht als Kultur” in Bonn; and the Menzies Centre at King’s College London. As a Marie Curie Research Fellow within the CoHaB (diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging) ITN based at WWU Muenster, her doctoral research focused on migration law and the shaping of legal spaces in the contemporary literature of the Roma diaspora.
Abstract
Understanding vulnerability as a process emerging unevenly through a reading of jurisprudence as literature challenges the carceral conceptualisation of immigration detention as a form of spatial control, when hegemonic narratives insist upon vulnerability as a corporeal concept born on the bodies of those subject to border violence rather than of the space itself. Through a critical reading of the text theorised through spatial vulnerability, I aim to encounter the material emergence of the gesture towards enclosure, that which must constantly deny its uneven and material originary narrative, revealing its inherent vulnerability at the site of the spectral threshold.
About the author
Emma Patchett is a Tutor and an independent postdoctoral researcher based at the Unversity of Leeds. She has previously conducted research at the Centre for Excellence in Law, Identity and the European Narratives at the University of Helsinki; the Käte Hamburger Kolleg “Recht als Kultur” in Bonn; and the Menzies Centre at King’s College London. As a Marie Curie Research Fellow within the CoHaB (diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging) ITN based at WWU Muenster, her doctoral research focused on migration law and the shaping of legal spaces in the contemporary literature of the Roma diaspora.
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- Frontmatter
- Secularization as a Paradigm of ‘Cross-Thought’
- Political Theology from Satan to Legitimacy
- Desacralized Law: Shakespeare and the Tragedy of Sovereignty
- Law, Politics, and Liberal Hope: A Literary and Anthropological Analysis of Secular Society
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- Digging Holes and Building Walls: Spatial Imaginations of the Law in Stories by Franz Kafka and Rachel Shihor
- Broken Justice: Justice and Relativism in the Work of Friedrich Dürrenmatt
- Law’s Dark Clarity: Hugo and the ‘Misery’ of Legal Categorizations
- Book Reviews
- Carlo Pelloso: Democracies and Republics Between Past and Future: From the Athenian Agora to e-Democracy, from the Roman Republic to Negative Power
- Björn Quiring: Trials of Nature: The Infinite Law Court of Milton’s Paradise Lost
- Heather James, Ovid and the Liberty of Speech in Shakespeare’s England
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Secularization as a Paradigm of ‘Cross-Thought’
- Political Theology from Satan to Legitimacy
- Desacralized Law: Shakespeare and the Tragedy of Sovereignty
- Law, Politics, and Liberal Hope: A Literary and Anthropological Analysis of Secular Society
- An Uncertain Secularisation: Reproductive Rights in Contemporary Italy
- Research
- Spatial Vulnerability at the Spectral Threshold
- Digging Holes and Building Walls: Spatial Imaginations of the Law in Stories by Franz Kafka and Rachel Shihor
- Broken Justice: Justice and Relativism in the Work of Friedrich Dürrenmatt
- Law’s Dark Clarity: Hugo and the ‘Misery’ of Legal Categorizations
- Book Reviews
- Carlo Pelloso: Democracies and Republics Between Past and Future: From the Athenian Agora to e-Democracy, from the Roman Republic to Negative Power
- Björn Quiring: Trials of Nature: The Infinite Law Court of Milton’s Paradise Lost
- Heather James, Ovid and the Liberty of Speech in Shakespeare’s England
