Call for Abstracts – Fleshy Jurisprudences

Joshua Shaw and Roxanne Mykitiuk are inviting the submission of abstracts for an edited collection of essays, which study the human body through ecologies of the ‘more-than-human’ and ask how more-than-human corporeality can constitute or shape law. The editors (Shaw and Mykitiuk) are looking at publishing the collection with an academic press in 2024.

Fleshy Jurisprudences should cover a range of case-studies that explore how law, and legal meanings, take form in and from the human body, body parts and other fleshy viscera associated with the human. Potential contributors are encouraged to explore the multiple ontologies of law that can compose from bodily matters, where ontology is understood generally as a system of features that make up existence, being or reality. These multiple ontologies can be understood through theories of embodiment, legal materiality and law and literature, among other critical strains of jurisprudence. Combined, the collection’s chapters should lay bare the limits of understanding law as discourse, posited or convention, and the need to study the relationship of law to the enactments of the physical world.

Those interested in contributing should prepare a 500-word abstract and 150-word author’s biography (name, degrees, institutions, research area) by November 15, 2022. Both documents should be sent to Joshua Shaw at joshua.shaw@dal.ca.

For more information, please visit Joshua Shaw’s website here.