Courtwatching: Visibility, publicness, witnessing, and embodiment in legal activism
dc.contributor.author | Gill, N | |
dc.contributor.author | Hynes, J | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-12-03T13:04:52Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-11-28 | |
dc.description.abstract | Courtwatching involves grassroots efforts to observe the day to day work of decision making in justice systems, usually undertaken by activists as a way to scrutinise and challenge the power of legal professionals such as judges. This paper argues for closer attention to courtwatching in legal geographical research. Numerous courtwatching programmes exist around the world, and the first part of the paper surveys some of these, giving a sense of their diversity, the challenges they can face, and the influence that they have. The second part of the paper uses courtwatching to explore questions of visibility, publicness, witnessing and embodiment in legal research into courts, trials and hearings. It argues that courtwatching highlights the complexity of legal publicness, problematising the binary notion of ‘closed’ or ‘open’ hearings and also raises important questions about the ethical differences between watching and witnessing. Finally, in the context of proliferating ways in which courts are becoming public via digital means of watching, such as TV and podcasts, the paper asks what difference it makes to actually be there, in the flesh, to watch legal processes. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | European Union Horizon 2020 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Published online 28 November 2020 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/area.12690 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | StG-2015_677917 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/123895 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Wiley / Royal Geographical Society / Institute of British Geographers | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2020 The Authors. Area published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers). This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The information, practices and views in this article are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). | en_GB |
dc.title | Courtwatching: Visibility, publicness, witnessing, and embodiment in legal activism | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2020-12-03T13:04:52Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0004-0894 | |
exeter.article-number | area.12690 | en_GB |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from Wiley via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.description | Data availability statement: This article is not strictly an empirical paper and therefore does not draw on data that is ours to share. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Area | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
exeter.funder | ::European Commission | en_GB |
exeter.funder | ::Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) | en_GB |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2020-11-28 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2020-12-03T13:03:01Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | AM | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2020-12-03T13:04:59Z | |
refterms.panel | C | en_GB |
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