Relocalizing the Judicial Space: Place, Access and Mobilization in Judicial Practice in Post-crisis Argentina

Barrera, Leticia

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“…Instead, here I try to think about the adjudication of the GMC as a problem of regulation, by appealing to another cultural form that regulation can take. For instance, Barrera has done similar things with the form of restoration in her work on judiciary reforms in Argentina, 16 Latour has reflected on the passage of the law via the signature 17…”

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The strikethrough: an approach to regulatory writing and professional discipline

Jacob

2017

Legal stud.

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This paper attends to writing practices by way of examining how a professional regulator engages with research activities conducted by doctors. In order to explore regulatory responses to alleged research misconduct, I use a specific calligraphic practice shared by researchers and regulators. The paper shows that taking this calligraphic practice as an analytical focus can offer surprising dividends to the study of regulation across fields. Via the practice of strikethrough, the General Medical Council effectuates three gestures as it engages with research activities: display, authentication and isolation. Understanding them requires asking what literal and metaphorical meanings travel in the strikethrough.

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The strikethrough: an approach to regulatory writing and professional discipline

Jacob

2017

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“…In this article, this is foundational to appreciating the multiple ways in which jurors’ experiences of belonging and their roles are governed within and around legal processes. It is, more broadly, an effective tool in sociolegal studies’ ongoing task of challenging commonplace and expert (self-) representations of judicial activity (Barrera, 2012). My methodological inspiration in actor-network theory (ANT) is crucial to this style of analysis.…”

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In Ambiguous Times and Spaces: The Everyday Assemblage of Lay Participation to Argentine Courthouses

Amietta

2020

Social & Legal Studies

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Most sociolegal research on juries and other forms of lay participation in criminal justice has been limited to questions of how lay people make decisions. This article proposes expanding this focus through a conceptually and methodologically novel examination of the recent incorporation of lay decision-makers in Argentina’s criminal justice system. Based on fieldwork conducted in the province of Córdoba, the article follows jurors as they enter the courthouses, unsettle normalized everyday practices and spatiotemporal arrangements, and encounter multiple authorities that define their role and legitimate belonging therein. The work of these multiple entities, the article argues, locates jurors in ambiguous situations between public and private spaces of the courthouses, and ultimately accentuate their alterity vis-à-vis legal professionals. Drawing on an ethnographic approach inspired in actor-network theory and on Mariana Valverde’s sociolegal elaborations of Bakhtin’s notion of chronotope, the article looks at this judicial reform as a site for fruitful examination of law’s multiscalar power dynamics, and it argues that legal institutions be investigated as flexible, fragile, and contingent assemblages of practices beyond their official representations.

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“…For a detailed description of the Palacio de Tribunales , the Supreme Court's building, see Barrera ().…”

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Performing the Court: Public Hearings and the Politics of Judicial Transparency in Argentina

Barrera

2013

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This article presents an understanding of transparency that draws on the instrumentality and performativity of a series of public encounters between the Argentine Supreme Court of Justice and subjects affected by river pollution. An ethnographic examination of those encounters illustrates how judicial adjudication articulates with a larger discourse of change and transparency that mushroomed after the 2001–2002 economic crisis giving the Court a public face. This crisis had a negative impact on the credibility of political and legal institutions. A focus on the performative character of public hearings implies an appreciation of transparency that is more comprehensive than the one enabled by visibility. As I argue in this article, this is because public hearings entail displays of the self that unfold through a complex sensorial experience that has effects on audiences. In the context of the Argentine Supreme Court's practices that this article examines, such audiences may extend far beyond the courtroom. Ultimately, the study demonstrates how transparency can be perceived as the performance of social positions that provide means and ends for a multitude of intended and unintended actors.

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Relocalizing the Judicial Space: Place, Access and Mobilization in Judicial Practice in Post-crisis Argentina

Cited by 4 publications

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The strikethrough: an approach to regulatory writing and professional discipline

The strikethrough: an approach to regulatory writing and professional discipline

In Ambiguous Times and Spaces: The Everyday Assemblage of Lay Participation to Argentine Courthouses

Performing the Court: Public Hearings and the Politics of Judicial Transparency in Argentina

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