Situating Legal Consciousness: Experiences and Attitudes of Ordinary Citizens about Law and Street Harassment

Nielsen, Laura Beth

doi:10.4324/9781315259604-10

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“…We know little, however, about how citizens in those families develop their own legal consciousness about their juridical category. In line with previous studies on legal consciousness (Abrego , , ; Engel and Munger ; Ewick and Silbey ; Hernandez ; Hoffmann ; Merry ; Nielsen ), here I am also interested in how legal consciousness may inform people's agency.…”

Section: Immigration Law and Immigrants’ Legal Consciousnessmentioning

confidence: 81%

Relational Legal Consciousness of U.S. Citizenship: Privilege, Responsibility, Guilt, and Love in Latino Mixed-Status Families

Abrego¹

2019

Law Soc Rev

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Based on interviews with 100 members of mixed‐status families in Los Angeles, California, this article analyzes how U.S. citizen children practice and understand citizenship in the context of punitive laws targeting their loved ones. Participants' narratives of citizenship as privilege, responsibility, and guilt reveal that despite normative conceptions of citizenship as a universally equal status, citizenship intersects with key social markers to determine the contours and inequalities of substantive citizenship. Specifically, U.S. citizens in mixed‐status families make sense of their juridical category when they navigate unrealistic aspirations from relatives, maintain silence about undocumented family members' legal status, manage their fear of family separation through deportation, and take on financial and logistical responsibilities prematurely to help relatives. In each of these ways, family proves to be a key site for the social and relational production of citizenship.

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Section: Immigration Law and Immigrants’ Legal Consciousnessmentioning

confidence: 81%

Relational Legal Consciousness of U.S. Citizenship: Privilege, Responsibility, Guilt, and Love in Latino Mixed-Status Families

Abrego¹

2019

Law Soc Rev

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“…That is, this case shows how the process of seizing land is not exercised as an assertion of explicit legal powers but performed as a neoliberal market transaction by reasonable individuals. While legal consciousness may vary according to a person's socioeconomic status (Ewick and Silbey ) or whether a group is, or considers itself, subordinate to the law (Nielsen ), legal consciousness in the Atlantic Yards case was shaped by how the state engaged, disengaged, and co‐constituted the public.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

When the Street Disappears: Eminent Domain, Redevelopment, and the Dissociative State

Snajdr

Trinch

2018

PoLAR

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In this article, we examine how the state of New York and a private developer deployed eminent domain, or the seizing of private property by the government, in order to build the Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park project in Brooklyn, NY. We use ethnography to examine how the state operated in partnership with the developer through neoliberalizing discursive practices that allowed it to dissociate itself from the assertion of its governing power. In this dissociative context, the state successfully implemented eminent domain in the absence of street‐level bureaucrats, relying instead on the creation of multiple publics, on the ambiguity of public–private partnerships, and, ironically, on the efforts of activists who fought the project. In addition to facilitating the seizure of land, this relationship between the state and the developer imposed the logic of neoliberal for‐profit development, espousing the creation of a public good for certain types of publics to the exclusion of others and creating a discourse wherein arguments against it seemed almost impossible.

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“…Interdivisional misogynistic speech may be sexist speech that is in practice transformed into misogyny, or it may be misogynistic speech more in line with the ordinary definition of misogyny as the universal hatred of (all) women. For example, consider the following statements: “I hate women, they're all sluts” (recounted by a twenty‐four‐year‐old white woman, cited in Nielsen , 1055), and “Women never had voting rights [through the] history of man‐kind. And should not have it now either” (Jane , 19).…”

Section: Interdivisional and Intradivisional Misogynistic Speech As Hmentioning

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Woman‐Hating: On Misogyny, Sexism, and Hate Speech

Richardson‐Self¹

2018

Hypatia

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Hate speech is one of the most important conceptual categories in anti‐oppression politics today; a great deal of energy and political will is devoted to identifying, characterizing, contesting, and (sometimes) penalizing hate speech. However, despite the increasing inclusion of gender identity as a socially salient trait, antipatriarchal politics has largely been absent within this body of scholarship. Figuring out how to properly situate patriarchy‐enforcing speech within the category of hate speech is therefore an important politico‐philosophical project. My aim in this article is twofold: first, I argue that sexist speech, though oppressive, is not hate speech. Second, I argue that misogynistic speech is hate speech, even when it is intradivisional (that is, when it targets only subsets of women). This is important because recognizing that the concept hate speech applies to certain forms of patriarchy‐enforcing speech is another step in clarifying what is wrong with the practice, and how bad it is in relation to other abuses. Consequently, this article provides a more nuanced account of the kinds of expressions that can and should count as instances of hate speech.

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Situating Legal Consciousness: Experiences and Attitudes of Ordinary Citizens about Law and Street Harassment

Cited by 73 publications

References 14 publications

Relational Legal Consciousness of U.S. Citizenship: Privilege, Responsibility, Guilt, and Love in Latino Mixed-Status Families

Relational Legal Consciousness of U.S. Citizenship: Privilege, Responsibility, Guilt, and Love in Latino Mixed-Status Families

When the Street Disappears: Eminent Domain, Redevelopment, and the Dissociative State

Woman‐Hating: On Misogyny, Sexism, and Hate Speech

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