Legal ethnography: Exploring the gendered nature of legal method

Beaman-Hall, Lori

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“…I elaborated on the ways in which both clients and female lawyers lives were organized using Dorothy Smith's methodology in an article I wrote very early in my career entitled 'Legal Ethnography: Exploring the Gendered Nature of Legal Method' (Beaman 1996). And yet, we did not have the same networks that male lawyers did, probably reflecting the fact that women were still doing the majority of home carechildcare, housework, and so onand did not have the same sort of leisure time as did many of our male colleagues.…”

Section: Roots Of Advocacy: Justice For Womenmentioning

confidence: 99%

Woven together: advocacy and research as complementary

Beaman

2014

Religion

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One of the many important contributions of second-wave feminist scholarship was the re-positioning of scholarly activity as being necessarily situated in relation to 'I.' This insistence on standpoint, or positionality, was coupled with a contribution from postmodernism, which challenged the notion that (universal) truths could circulate without specific attachments to people and places. Advocacy was a less used word, but the position taken in this paper is that every piece of research, in all science, carries with it the potential for advocacy. Drawing on the author's own experiences of advocacy as interwoven though her career as a lawyer and an academic, this paper examines various aspects of the intersection of advocacy and professional work.One of the many important contributions of second-wave feminist scholarship was the re-positioning of scholarly activity as being necessarily situated in relation to 'I.' This insistence on standpoint, or positionality, was coupled with a contribution from postmodernism, which challenged the notion that (universal) truths could circulate without specific attachments to people and places. Advocacy was a less used word, but it is my position that every piece of research, in all science, carries with it the potential for advocacy. This means that each researcher has a standpoint and a worldview that is imbricated in the research she carries out. That standpoint becomes advocacy, which might be understood as action in the service of a particular group, cause, or individual, when the researcher's self-reflexive engagement with her research moves her to transform her research into action, which can take any number of forms. These might include donating time, money, and energy, making public presentations, speaking to the press, agitating for legislative change, lobbying political players, and so on. It may include providing a group with information so that it can be sparked to advocacy. The boundaries around what we describe as advocacy are blurry, but mobilization of researcher standpoint is a key element. Standpoint does not mean the type of self-absorbed Twitter postings that tweets one's personal life and 'important' engagements, but rather Religion, 2014 Vol. 44, No. 2, 276-288, http://dx.

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Section: Roots Of Advocacy: Justice For Womenmentioning

confidence: 99%

Woven together: advocacy and research as complementary

Beaman

2014

Religion

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“…To substantiate this perspective, radical feminist theory offered a sophisticated critique of knowledge and identity, ushering in a formidable challenge to the established ‘malestream’ method of legal analysis (e.g. Abrams, 2006; Bartlett, 1989; Beaman-Hall, 1996; Mossman, 1986).…”

Section: Critical Theoretical Perspectives In Psychological Jurisprudmentioning

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De/reconstructing critical psychological jurisprudence: strategies of resistance and struggles for justice

Arrigo

2010

International Journal of Law in Context

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The development of an integrated critical psychological jurisprudence (PJ) continues to elude researchers in theoretical and applied contexts. Indeed, the radical potential of a synthetic PJ that furthers the political aims of social change, collective good and citizen justice has yet to be sufficiently problematised or systematically reviewed in the extant literature. This article begins to address this deficiency. First, the social philosophy that informs and underscores radicalised PJ is described. This includes commentary on its underlying symbolic, linguistic, material and cultural footing. Second, several well-rehearsed theoretical strains of critical PJ are summarily presented. These strains consist of anarchism, critical legal studies, feminist jurisprudence and complex systems science. Third, a conceptual integration is undertaken that links radicalised PJ’s grounding in social philosophy with its established theoretical variants. This synthesis demonstrates the probing political project of critical PJ, especially as a humanising strategy of resistance and an evolving struggle for justice. This is a political project that seeks to de/reconstruct the images (aesthetic), narratives (epistemology), embodiments (ethic) and reproductions (ontology) at the core of its nascent critique.

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Practicing penal harm medicine in the United States: Prisoners' voices from jail

Vaughn

Smith

1999

Justice Quarterly

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This article explores how the implementation of the penal harm movement within a correctional health care system can lead to the ill-treatment and torture of prisoners. Through an interpretive/inductive analysis of reports written by a federal court monitor and 103 letters written by prisoners to a federal court monitor overseeing a consent decree of a county mega jail located in the United States, we identify six areas of ill-treatment and torture at the jail's medical facilities: (1) using medical care to humiliate prisoners;(2) withholding medical care from HIV-positive prisoners and those with AIDS; (3) withholding medical care from other prisoners; (4) exposing prisoners to temperature extremes and sleep deprivation; (5) using dental care as a means of ill-treatment and torture; and (6) falsifying prisoners' medical records. Because correctional medical personnel work in a system that subordinates their professional canons to the efficiency-based rationality of the new penology and the ethical relativism of the penal harm movement, we conclude that some correctional health providers sympathetic to the custodial subculture abdicate their ethical obligations, and that the result is illtreatment and torture of prisoners.

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Legal ethnography: Exploring the gendered nature of legal method

Cited by 4 publications

References 18 publications

Woven together: advocacy and research as complementary

Woven together: advocacy and research as complementary

De/reconstructing critical psychological jurisprudence: strategies of resistance and struggles for justice

Practicing penal harm medicine in the United States: Prisoners' voices from jail

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