Mariana Valverde
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Most of us in liberal democratic countries think that we live under the rule of law. Governments make the rules, we live by them and the police enforce them if we try to break them. The Force of Law critically examines these assumptions. Award-winning criminologist Mariana Valverde makes clear that while the law is usually regarded as the civilized, non-violent way to deal with harms and conflicts, violence is integral to law. After all, police are...
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Mariana Valverde is Professor at the Centre of Criminology, University of Toronto, where she teaches social and legal theory. She is the author of Diseases of the Will, The Age of Light, Soap, and Water, and Sex, Power, and Pleasure.
If knowledge is power, then the power of law can be studied through the lens of knowledge. This book opens up a substantive new area of legal research--knowledge production--and presents a series of case studies showing...
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Este libro presenta un mapa de categorías provenientes de la geografía para analizar la relación entre derecho y geografía según lo comprende la literatura de la corriente de la geografía legal. Este libro presenta, por primera vez en español, cuatro ensayos fundamentales para entender qué es la geografía legal y cómo resulta productiva para la académia legal latinoamericana. El punto de partida es el reconocimiento de la naturaleza política...