We are putting together a workshop on the theme of “Regulating Uncertainty: Anthropological Approaches to Space of Uncertainty in and of Law” for the EASA2012 Conference in Paris. We seek proposals consisting of a paper title, a (very) short abstract of <300 characters, and an abstract of 250 words.
All proposals must be made via the online form, no later than 28 November 2011. On submission, the proposing author will receive an automatic confirmation of receipt.
To propose a paper, please go to:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2012/paperproposal.php5?PanelID=1320
For more details, please visit the EASA 2012 website:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2012/panels.php5?PanelID=1320
http://www.easaonline.org/conferences/easa2012/callforpapers.htm
Damiana Otoiu (University of Bucharest, Political Science Department)
Cristina Golomoz (London School of Economics and Political Science, Anthropology Department)
EASA2012: Uncertainty and Disquiet
Nanterre University, France, 10/07/2012 – 13/07/2012
(W041) Regulating Uncertainty: Anthropological Approaches to Spaces of
Uncertainty in and of Law
Convenors:
Damiana Otoiu (University of Bucharest, Political Science Department)
Cristina Golomoz (London School of Economics and Political Science, Anthropology Department)
Short Abstract
This workshop invites studies examining the role of law and of legal institutions in coping with uncertainties and risks pervading our lives. We welcome anthropological, legal, and other social sciences approaches to legal uncertainty, indeterminacy, and risk.
Long Abstract
It is a basic assumption in contemporary social sciences that individuals possess limited degrees of rationality and reflexivity for understanding and responding to the surrounding (living) environment and landscape. As a consequence, the different social and cultural
contexts in which individuals live face them with different types and forms of uncertainty spaces, that is, zones in which norms or regulations are insufficient or entirely absent. This observation retains validity even for spaces which are par excellence regulatory systems and which foster certainty as their inner principle, as it is the case of law.
This workshop invites studies examining the role of law and of legal institutions in coping with uncertainties and risks pervading our lives. Added the fact that attitudes to risk and uncertainty are not homogenous, but they vary (also) according to cultural and group biases (M. Douglas and A. Wildavsky: 1982), we welcome anthropological, legal, and other social sciences approaches to:
• Perception and assessment of legal uncertainty and risk across legal and cultural traditions
• Legal definitions of risk and uncertainty
• Legal indeterminacy and interpretability of law
• Attempts at or claims of reducing legal indeterminacy and uncertainty
• Social benefits and costs of legal indeterminacy and uncertainty
• Ways in which courts and judges handle uncertainty and risk
Damiana OTOIU
Political Science Department
University of Bucharest
8, Spiru Haret Street
010175, Bucharest 1
Ph.: 0040 21 3141268
Fax: 0040 21 3133511
E-mail: damiana.otoiu@ fspub.unibuc. ro
URL: www.seminairevirtuel.ro
http://www.cevipol.site.ulb.ac.be/fr/membres_otoiu-damianagabriela.html
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