Bruno Latour: The Making of Law. An Ethnography of the Conseil d'Etat. Cambridge 2010: Cambridge Polity Press, 297 pp.
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Bruno Latour: The Making of Law. An Ethnography of the Conseil d'Etat. Cambridge 2010: Cambridge Polity Press, 297 pp.
Original language description
Bruno Latour's The Making of Law: An Ethnography of the Conseil d'Etat is an extraordinary book which deserves to be considered from various angles: anthropology and ethnography, legal theory and philosophy, actor-network-theory (ANT), and science and technology studies (STS). It deserves a wide readership, especially among those who are interested in the anthropology of legal modernity. As an ethnographer, Latour takes us close to the workings of law embodied in the Conseil d'Etat (the French supreme administrative court and the legislative council of French government); not, as is often the case, by concentrating on concept-defi ning activities, but by focusing on the material practices of this legal institution. For an anthropologist it may be interesting to consider how an author, a nonjurist, has modifi ed the method of participant observation as applied to modern law, which is well known for its resistance to the ethnographic method of enquiry. Despite being an outsider who does
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Classification
Type
O - Miscellaneous
CEP classification
AC - Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2014
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů