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- Banakar, Reza
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Law, Policy and Social Control Amidst Flux
- 2016
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In: Festskrift till Karsten Åström. - 9789154405695 ; , s. 47-47
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This chapter will begin with a brief discussion of early modernity and the rise of the welfare state, before going on to explore how law and legal regulation change as we enter “late modernity”. The notion of “late modernity” – not to be confused with postmodernity – captures how industrially advanced societies evolve, when globalisation, aided by information technology, accelerates rapidly at the end of the twentieth century. Globalisation speeds up the movement of capital, information, goods, services, people, images and ideas across the globe, thus, dislodging social and cultural norms from their context in time and space. It shifts social and cultural boundaries, enhancing “reflexivity” and social disembeddedness of individuals and collectivises, giving rise to pluralities of values, norms and laws, on the one hand, and to uncertainties, anxieties and “ontological insecurities,” on the other. Enhanced reflexivity – the constant awareness of existing alternative choices, moral standards and modes of action brought on by the consequences of globalisation – offers new possibilities as the agency increasingly frees itself from the normative constraints of institutions. Fuelled by a ubiquitous culture of consumerism and facilitated by digital technology, this heightened reflexivity helps to advance hyper-individualism across society, emphasising individual rights divorced from their corresponding responsibilities and concerns with collective “social good”. This, in turn, destabilises social relations and structures which previously gave a sense of cohesion, permanence and continuity to modernity. What does hold society together and what is the role of law and regulation under the liquid conditions of late modernity? These are among the questions that will guide us through this chapter.
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- Bergwall, Peter, et al.
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Tracing Critical Realism in the Work of Åström
- 2016
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In: Festskrift till Karsten Åström. - 9789154405695 ; , s. 75-94
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The aim of this chapter is to discuss the possibilities of a critical realist sociology of law set against the background of the work of Professor Karsten Åström. Thus, in the next section I give a short description of Åström’s ”sociolegal stance”, and specifically his concept of parallel norm creating processes. I then proceed, in the third section, to describe the basics of Roy Bhaskar’s critical realism as a philosophy of science. This is followed in the fourth section by the recapitulation of Bhaskar’s own dialectical critical realism (DCR), which is built on the dialectics of Hegel and Marx. In section five, I move on to the legal theory of the critical realist law professor Alan Norrie with a focus on Norrie’s critique of ”liberal law”. Thereafter, in section six, I specifically highlight Norrie’s call for a sociology of law in the spirit of DCR, beyond legal positivist and poststructuralist conceptions of law. Then, in section seven, I discuss the potential critical realism of Åström’s work by reflecting on the analysis model of legal regulation (AMLR), applied in analyses of legal norms, e.g., in social service agencies. This is followed by how conceiving of AMLR dialectically may enable new ways for understanding social conflicts and social change in the field of social welfare. This is, in the final section, demonstrated by the case of EU migrants residing legally in Sweden but without the right to social welfare. In this case, an external social institution, an NGO, succeeded to influence, open up and ultimately collaborate with the local public administration, resulting in new policy with the potential to improve the living conditions for the migrants.
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- Bröchner, Jan, 1948
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Rättskipningen är byggande
- 2016
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In: Festskrift till Karsten Åström. - 9789154405695 ; , s. 95-110
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- Larsson, Stefan, et al.
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Rätten i den fysiska planeringen. Tre teoretiska perspektiv
- 2016
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In: Festskrift till Karsten Åström. - 9789154405695 ; , s. 306-306
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Detta kapitel rör sig i spänningsfältet mellan rättssociologi och fysisk planering i syfte att visa på hur den senare kunde utvecklas genom bidrag från den förras vidgade förståelse för och av rätten. Analysen, som grundas på material från empiriska studier av utbyggnaden av 3G-systemet och av vindkraften, fokuserar rättens roll i planeringen ur tre perspektiv som är vanliga i rättssociologisk forskning och som är relevanta för att förstå den fysiska planeringen: 1) Samspelet mellan nivåer och hierarki inom planeringssystemen;2) Frågan om legitimiteten hos olika former av kunskap i avgöranden om bygglov och miljölov och i överklagande av sådana lov.3) En spänning eller diskrepans i "gapet” mellan lagens/lagstiftarens intentioner (”law in books”) i förhållande till vad som faktiskt uppnås i praktiken (”law in action”).
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