What is the Climate? Notes on a Critical Legal Methodology
In this commentary on Prof. Ralf Michaels’ 2023 Montesquieu Lecture, I ask what it is that legal scholars invoke when referring to ‘the climate’. Drawing on material semiotics and science and technology studies, I argue that it is productive to become attuned to how the climate is in fact a multiple...
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| description | In this commentary on Prof. Ralf Michaels’ 2023 Montesquieu Lecture, I ask what it is that legal scholars invoke when referring to ‘the climate’. Drawing on material semiotics and science and technology studies, I argue that it is productive to become attuned to how the climate is in fact a multiple phenomenon which is produced across social, cultural, economic, financial, technological, political, scientific and other domains. Building on this argument, I offer some preliminary reflections on what a turn from ‘the climate’ to multiple climates might mean for developing a critical legal methodology. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c1373347b7fe42c7999f94082d2b06092024-01-17T08:14:55ZengUbiquity PressTilburg Law Review2211-25452023-12-0128120–2520–2510.5334/tilr.337337What is the Climate? Notes on a Critical Legal MethodologyLaura Mai0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8975-1078Tilburg Law School, Tilburg University, TilburgIn this commentary on Prof. Ralf Michaels’ 2023 Montesquieu Lecture, I ask what it is that legal scholars invoke when referring to ‘the climate’. Drawing on material semiotics and science and technology studies, I argue that it is productive to become attuned to how the climate is in fact a multiple phenomenon which is produced across social, cultural, economic, financial, technological, political, scientific and other domains. Building on this argument, I offer some preliminary reflections on what a turn from ‘the climate’ to multiple climates might mean for developing a critical legal methodology.https://account.tilburglawreview.com/index.php/up-j-tlr/article/view/337climate changecritical legal studiesco-productionsituated knowledges |
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