Griffiths / Mustasaari / Maki-Petaja-Leinonen Subjectivity, Citizenship and Belonging in Law

Identities and Intersections
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-30813-3
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 285 Seiten

Law tends to have a rather fixed view of the proper or valid legal subject. This collection challenges law’s inherent constructions of normality and the ‘normal’ subject. Taken together, the articles cover issues as diverse as marginalized identities and agencies, transnational families, the legal position of vulnerable citizens, the complex relations of care and work, as well as gender and queer aspects in law. The book looks at the nation state and citizenship, and relates these public and political issues to the most nuanced and personal of questions, such as gender, intimate relations and private identities. Focused, yet broad in scope, this collection examines what happens to the subject of law in the intersections of its different domains, as well as in the interplay of international and national law. By doing so, it reveals how often unspoken understandings affect the autonomy, protection and agency of individuals; whilst highlighting the importance of communities and identities that are often hard to grasp in legal terms.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Griffiths, Anne

Mustasaari, Sanna

Maki-Petaja-Leinonen, Anna

Mäki-Petajä-Leinonen, Anna

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Bürgerliches Recht Familienrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword, 1. Introduction Part I: Politics, power and subjectivation 2. Samuli Hurri, Aristotle’s ethical subjectivation 3. Panu Minkkinen, Constituted citizenship and the constituent nation 4. Kati Nieminen, Who belongs? The Turkish citizen subject in turmoil Part II: Capable subjects: ‘Ability and ‘autonomy’ as markers of citizenship 5. Sanna Mustasaari, Interrogating citizenship in transnational families, 6. Pablo Marshall Disenfranchisement and political capacity 7. Anna Mäki-Petäjä-Leinonen, Protection and autonomy: An elder law approach to restriction of freedom Part III: Creating value? Notions of personhood, property and contribution 8. Marjo Ylhäinen, The changing identity of the employee / worker – can labour law protect the autonomous employee? 9. Jane Mair, Having it all? Reconciliation of work and family 10. Anne Griffiths, Families, identity and belonging: Rethinking personhood and property in Botswana 11. Sanna Koulu and Dorota A. Gozdecka, Ethics, otherness and the family Part IV: Contesting the category of the person 12. Fabrice Gzil, Personhood and cognitive capacity: A philosophical perspective 13. Carolynn Gray, The (gender) queer in UK Law: why current protective provisions are insufficient 14. Susanna Lindroos-Hovinheimo, Personhood and European Law

Über Autor(innen)

Ann Griffiths is Professor of Law at the University of Edinburgh; Sanna Mustasaari and Anna Mäki-Petajä-Leinonen are both based at the University of Helsinki .