What's missing from legal geography and materialist studies of law? Absence and the assembling of asylum appeal hearings in Europe

被引：21

作者：

Gill, Nick ^{[1
]}

Allsopp, Jennifer ^{[2
]}

Burridge, Andrew ^{[3
]}

Fisher, Dan ^{[4
]}

Griffiths, Melanie ^{[5
]}

Hambly, Jessica ^{[1
,6
]}

Hoellerer, Nicole ^{[1
]}

Paszkiewicz, Natalia ^{[7
]}

Rotter, Rebecca ^{[8
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Exeter, Coll Life & Environm Sci, Exeter, Devon, England

[2] Harvard Grad Sch Educ, Immigrat Initiat Harvard IIH, Cambridge, MA USA

[3] Macquarie Univ, Dept Geog & Planning, Sydney, NSW, Australia

[4] James Hutton Inst, Aberdeen, Scotland

[5] Univ Birmingham, Sch Geog Earth & Environm Sci, Birmingham, W Midlands, England

[6] Australian Natl Univ, Coll Law, Canberra, ACT, Australia

[7] Univ Bath, Dept Social & Policy Sci, Bath, Avon, England

[8] Univ Edinburgh, Sch Social & Polit Sci, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland

来源：

TRANSACTIONS OF THE INSTITUTE OF BRITISH GEOGRAPHERS | 2020年 / 45卷 / 04期

基金：

英国经济与社会研究理事会; 欧盟地平线“2020”;

关键词：

absence; asylum; ethnography; Europe; law; materiality;

D O I：

10.1111/tran.12399

中图分类号：

P9 [自然地理学]; K9 [地理];

学科分类号：

0705 ; 070501 ;

摘要：

There is an absence of absence in legal geography and materialist studies of the law. Drawing on a multi-sited ethnography of European asylum appeal hearings, this paper illustrates the importance of absences for a fully-fledged materiality of legal events. We show how absent materials impact hearings, that non-attending participants profoundly influence them, and that even when participants are physically present, they are often simultaneously absent in other, psychological registers. In so doing we demonstrate the importance and productivity of thinking not only about law's omnipresence but also the absences that shape the way law is experienced and practised. We show that attending to the distribution of absence and presence at legal hearings is a way to critically engage with legal performance.

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页码：937 / 951

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