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- Arvidsson, Matilda
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Embodying law in the garden: An autoethnographical account of an office of law
- 2014
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Ingår i: Australian Feminist Law Journal. - 1320-0968. ; 39, s. 21-45
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Based on an autoethnographical study of the office of the tingsnotarie this article questions the relation between the ethical self and the act of taking up a judicial office, employing the question of how I can live with (my) law. While the office and the ethical self are kept apart, often by recourse to persona, I make a case for the attendance to the self in examinations of ethical responsibility when pursuing an office of law. I propose that the garden, and in particular the practices and notions of (en)closure, (loss of) direction, cultivation, (dis)order, authorship and care-for-the-other which are all part of the gardener’s everyday life and vocation, offers critical insights when thinking through the embodiment of law and the relationship between the ethical self and the office.
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, 1976, et al.
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FOREWORD: GARDENS OF JUSTICE
- 2013
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Ingår i: Australian Feminist Law Journal. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1320-0968 .- 2204-0064. ; 39:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, 1976
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Laugh all you Medusas! Écriture feminine as feminist legal translation, transformation, transgression, and translactation in the age of AI and the Anthropocene
- 2022
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Ingår i: Australian Feminist Law Journal. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1320-0968 .- 2204-0064. ; 47:2, s. 283-297
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This text considers Hélène Cixous’ écriture feminine (‘writing feminine’) as one way to do feminist legal translation. It discusses the importance of ‘writing one self’ as legal scholars in our own time as a reflection both on what law as well as what the self is or can be. To write one self through écriture feminine is a feminist act in contestation to the ‘phallocentric’ search for the law’s (phallo-)‘originary first term or logos’. Drawing on Yoriko Otomo’s feminist legal scholarship, I show that écriture feminine writes the world differently through the writing of the self; something which is urgently needed in a time of, as Anna Grear puts it, ‘necrotic, predatory imperative of Euro-centric petro-capitalism and rampant industrial consumerism.’ Legal scholarship has often considered Cixous’ work in the context of ‘the linguistic turn’ – a turn that has been out of vogue for some time now. Hence, Cixous’ écriture feminine is rarely explicitly part of contemporary critical legal scholars’ efforts. In this text, however, I argue that Cixous’ scholarship, and her écriture feminine, is necessary to contemporary legal scholarship in its turn to new materialism, tech and AI: The feminist translation, transformation, transgression and translactation in écriture feminine interrupt the phallocentric predatory imperative embedded in the world such legal scholarship tries to make sense of and rework.
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, 1976
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Targeting, Gender and International Posthumanitarian Law and Practice: Framing the Question of the Human in International Humanitarian Law
- 2018
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Ingår i: Australian Feminist Law Journal. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1320-0968 .- 2204-0064. ; 44:1, s. 9-28
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Focusing on targeting law and practice in contemporary high-tech warfare, this article brings international humanitarian legal scholarship into conversation with posthumanist feminist theory for the purpose of rethinking international humanitarian law (IHL) in terms of the posthuman condition. I suggest that posthumanist feminist theory – in particular Rosi Braidotti’s scholarship – is helpful to the IHL scholar for understanding and describing high-tech warfare that recognises the ‘targetable body’ as both material and digital. Posthumanist feminist theory, moreover, avails us of a much-needed critical position from which to reframe the question of what the ‘humanitarian’ aim in IHL is: who, and what, can the ‘human’ of this humanitarianism be? This article sets out the framework for a posthumanitarian international law as an ethicalnormative order worthy, as Braidotti puts it, of the complexity of our times.
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- Bengtsen, Peter
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Just gardens? On the struggle for space and spatial justice
- 2013
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Ingår i: Australian Feminist Law Journal. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1320-0968 .- 2204-0064. ; 39:1, s. 79-92
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The present article represents a quite literal take on the theme of the special issue of Australian Feminist Law Journal in which it appears by discussing the public park as a garden of justice: on the one hand a concrete, geographical setting in which law and morality become manifest, on the other hand the site of a more intangible space which is constituted by the struggles between different spatial definitions. The article focuses on the case of Ørstedsparken in Copenhagen, a well-known cruising site where bi- and homosexual men have been meeting up to have sex for more than a century. In response to this use of the park, in recent years the municipality of Copenhagen has cut down vegetation in the park in order to expose (and thereby attempt to prevent) these activities. In doing so, the authorities attempt to reclaim the contested public space of the park and return it to a site of order (law) and potential justice. This reaction can be related to Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos’ notion of spatial justice, which sees the need for withdrawal from the space one occupies as essential, and to the problems related to several agents laying claim to the same space at the same time. The article also proposes that the desire to expose those who retreat to public parks to have sex may in part be a result of the hiddenness of the people who engage in these activities, since this represents a space which can be perceived as extralegal in a formal sense. Further, in connection with this discussion, the article also considers the informal implications that this specific use of the park as a homosexual cruising site has on the perception of safety and – by extension – law and suggests that unlike many other types of illegal activities, the use of parks as cruising sites means that they in some cases come to be seen as safer recreational areas for women than other parks, because the male homosexual use is perceived as precluding other types of illicit activity (e.g. heterosexual rape, robbery, drug dealing). The article also addresses the fact that while the cutting of bushes can be seen as a physical manifestation of the presence of law, the specific targeting of this homosexual cruising site may point to a moral aspect of justice. Given that it is no longer possible to suggest the removal of homosexual desire in people, the cutting down of bushes at gay cruising sites could be interpreted as a surrogate way of imposing moral law upon those who fall outside of heteronormativity. This argument is underpinned by an analysis of the debate and critique of the sexual activities in the park in the media which seems to move not primarily on the level of legality, but on that of morality and justice. The article ends with an analysis of a sign stipulating the conditions of the use of Ørstedsparken as a cruising site, which was placed at the gates of the park in April 2012. The sign is analysed and related to the struggle for spatial definition and the notion of spatial justice.
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Gardens of Justice
- 2013
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Ingår i: Australian Feminist Law Journal. - 1320-0968. ; 39
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Gunneflo, Markus, et al.
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Swedish Foreign Policy Feminisms : Women, Capitalism and Social Democracy
- 2021
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Ingår i: Australian Feminist Law Journal. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1320-0968 .- 2204-0064. ; 47:2, s. 207-227
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article outlines the historical distinctiveness of the feminist foreign policy (FFP) Sweden has pursued since 2014. To highlight the particularity of the current FFP, we make use of two methodological moves: de-framing and counterpoint. De-framing helps us highlight the importance for the current FFP of a moment in the beginning of the 1990s, when a feminism naturalising capitalist arrangements came to ascendency both transnationally and in Sweden. Counterpoint entails juxtaposing the present FFP with a decidedly different Swedish FFP project from the late 1960s and 1970s – the project of the prominent Social Democrat Birgitta Dahl to gain official Swedish support for socialist and progressive governments and national liberation movements with an eye to how such support would also serve the cause of women’s liberation. The comparative historical perspective the article brings, allows us to understand why Swedish feminist foreign policy has never been as explicitly and strongly articulated as it is today while its transformative vision of justice and equality on a global scale has become strikingly weak and narrow.
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