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Courtwatching: Visibility, publicness, witnessing, and embodiment in legal activism
Author(s) -
Gill Nick,
Hynes Jo
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
area
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1475-4762
pISSN - 0004-0894
DOI - 10.1111/area.12690
Subject(s) - grassroots , context (archaeology) , visibility , diversity (politics) , face (sociological concept) , power (physics) , economic justice , sociology , law , public relations , political science , politics , social science , paleontology , physics , optics , quantum mechanics , biology
The paper sets out what courtwatching is and gives some examples from various countries. It argues that a closer engagement with courtwatching in legal geography will yield insights into the issues of visibility, publicness, witnessing, and embodiment that surround court observations.