From Anne Wagner, Research Associate Professor, Université
du Littoral Côte d'Opale (CGU Calais)
it is with great privilege that we
announce the official launch of a new Law Book Series, of which Sarah Marusek
and I are the Series Editors. This Book Series Law and Visual
Jurisprudence (Springer) is a long-term project that we
have been carrying out for several years now, and that we hope many of you will
take up and will consider submitting proposals for individual and/or collective
works.
It is a unique Law Book Series that
bridges different fields of expertise to allow a percolation of experience and
a sharing of this advanced knowledge from our individual, collective and/or
institutional fields of competence. Our editorial board also reflects
this idea with well-established researchers from all over the world and in all
our disciplines with some of them who are pioneers in Visual Jurisprudence and
Visual Semiotics.
We will thus have the possibility of
publishing monographs of almost 350 pages as well as edited volumes of nearly
900 pages. The official language of publication of this book series remains
English, with the possibility of publishing some chapters in French for
collective works.
In the spirit of the rhizome from
Deleuze and Guattari, the visual chaos of the Banyan tree (our official cover
for our book series) reminds us of the variety of a root system revealing
facets of (de)territorialization. With aerial roots that mature into multiple
trunks of the tree, the Banyan has abundant root-trunks perpetually growing
during its lifetime. It has keenly adapted to environmental conditions
insofar as roots, sprouting without the cover of soil, are visibly tumultous
and unruly. Tentacular in appearance, the Banyan is rich in complex materiality
and function. Yet, in seeing the Banyan, we can see beyond the tree to
metaphorically envision the evolving development of the relationship of law and
visual jurisprudence as a relationship equally disorganized and
spontaneous.
Our scopes:
The Series Law and Visual Jurisprudence seeks to harness the
diverse and innovative work within and across the boundaries of law,
jurisprudence, and the visual in various contexts and manifestations. It seeks
to bring together a range of diverse and at the same time cumulative research
traditions related to these fields to identify fertile avenues for interdisciplinary
research.
In our everyday lives, we experience law as a system of signs.
Representations of legality are visually manifested in the materiality of
things we see and spatially experience. Methodologically, aesthetic texts of
legality semiotically emerge as examples of visual jurisprudence and illustrate
the constitutive waltz between social governance, formal law, and materiality.
In its tangled relationship to regulation, the visual complexity
of law is semiotically articulated as an ongoing process of meaning imbued with
symbolism, memory, and cultural markers. Through a legal semiotics framework of
symbolic articulation and analysis, the examination of law that happens in
conjunction with the visual expands understandings of how law is crafted and
takes root. Additionally, such an inquiry challenges the positivist view of law
based within the courtroom as disciplinary spatial practices, the observation
of everyday phenomenon, and the visible tethering of regulation to cultural
understandings of legality generate a framework of visual jurisprudence. The
Series seeks to enliven such frameworks as those in which law happens precisely
without formal institutions of law and through which a visual-based methodology
of law is crafted through everyday instances of ordinariness that contextualize
the relationship between law, culture, and banality.
The Series welcomes proposals – be they edited collections or
single-authored monographs – emphasizing the contingency and fluidity of legal
concepts, stressing the existence of overlapping, competing and coexisting
legal discourses, proposing critical approaches to law and the visual,
identifying and discussing issues, proposing solutions to problems, offering
analyses in areas such as legal semiotics, jurisprudence, and visual approaches
to law.
Keywords: Legal Visual Studies, Popular Culture, Everyday Law,
Spatiality, Legal Semiotics, Legal Geography, Legal Materiality, Legal
Transplant, Bioethics, Cyber Law, Communication, Heritage and Territory, Design,
Marketing, Packaging, Digitalization, Arts.
Our official website:
Queries and/or submissions:
Should you be interested in
submitting a proposal for Law and Visual Jurisprudence book
series, either for an edited collection or a single-authored monograph, please
liaise directly with both Series Editors using their emails: Sarah Marusek
(marusek[at]hawaii.edu) and Anne Wagner (valwagnerfr[at]yahoo.com).
With best wishes
Anne Wagner & Sarah Marusek
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