Cultural Legal Studies of Science Fiction

This book presents and engages the world building capacity of legal theory through cultural legal studies of science and speculative fictions.

This book presents and engages the world-building capacity of legal theory through cultural legal studies of science and speculative fictions.

In these studies, the contributors take seriously the legal world building of science and speculative fiction to reveal, animate and critique legal wisdom: juris-prudence. Following a common approach in cultural legal studies, the contributors engage directly, and in detail, with specific cultural 'texts', novels, television, films and video games in order to explore a range of possible legal futures. The book is organized in three parts: first, the contextualisation of science and speculative fiction as jurisprudence; second, the temporality of law and legal theory and third, the analysis of specific science and speculative fictions. Throughout, the contributors reveal the way in which law as nomos builds normative universes through the narration of a future.

This book will appeal to scholars and students with interests in legal theory, cultural legal studies, law and the humanities and law and literature.

Autorentext

Alex Green is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of York, UK.

Mitchell Travis is Associate Professor of Law and Social Justice at the University of Leeds, UK.

Kieran Tranter is Chair of Law, Technology and Future at the School of Law, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

Inhalt

1. The collapse and the spiral: Law, culture and science fiction Alex Green, Mitchell Travis and Kieran Tranter Part I: Foundation 2. The magnitudes of law and science fiction Kieran Tranter Part II: The high castle - science fiction as legal theory 3. Dystopian jurisprudence Mitchell Travis 4. Black/African science fiction and imaginative resistance: explorations towards a racially just jurisprudence of the future 5. There is no 'I' in law: The past and future of legal authority and subjects Chris Dent 6. The three-body problem: Prometheus, Pandora, and the cosmic jurisprudence Moira McMillan 7. Law, sovereignty and its subversions in Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice, Ancillary Sword and Ancillary Mercy Daniel Hourigan 8. Experimenting in legal dystopia: Conceptualising and interrogating socio-legal and jurisprudential problems in science fiction video games Craig John Newbery-Jones 9. Sir Samuel Griffith and utopia: Characterising the politician Karen Schultz Part III: The shadow proclamation - fevered legality in sci-fi franchises 10. 'The circle must be broken': Imagining legal monsterhood through Doctor Who Steven S Kapica 11. No way out: The liberal fantasy of rebellion in Andor Isaac Henry Kieran Tranter Part IV: Others 13. Ex silico: Fictions, predictions and personhoods in film and law Bruce Baer Arnold 14. Ectogestation as emancipation: A feminist science fiction Zoe L Tongue 15. Dreaming of electric sheep: Android lessons for nature Felicity Deane