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Introduction Introduction
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Shifting conversations between anthropology and law Shifting conversations between anthropology and law
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Social control between anthropology and law Social control between anthropology and law
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Social control: from content to context Social control: from content to context
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Social control: new means to old ends Social control: new means to old ends
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Social control: law against itself Social control: law against itself
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Conclusion Conclusion
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Notes Notes
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References References
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1 Social Control through LawCritical Afterlives
Get accessCarol J. Greenhouse is the Arthur W. Marks ’19 Professor of Anthropology Emeritus at Princeton University. She earned her A.B. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. Her primary research interests lie in the ethnography of law, particularly in relation to federal power in the United States. Her books include The Paradox of Relevance: Ethnography and Citizenship in the United States (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011), (ed.) Ethnographies of Neoliberalism (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012), and (with Alfred C. Aman) Transnational Law: Cases and Problems in an Interconnected World (Carolina Academic Press, 2017). She is past president of the American Ethnological Society, the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology, and the Law & Society Association, and past editor of American Ethnologist. Her work on the ethnography of law has been recognized by the Law & Society Association and the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and Humanities. She is a member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Published:08 October 2020
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Abstract
Through much of the twentieth century, social control was a major theoretical concern for anthropologists engaged with law and those lawyers interested in the colonial administration of indigenous communities, later falling out of fashion as scholarship changed with the times. Today, the association of law with social control once again looms large as the hardening of national borders, the militarization of security practices, and the imposition of austerity measures (among other measures) instrumentalize the classic idea of social control through law in new ways. The chapter argues that social control merits a critical afterlife that would examine the construction of legal subjects for political purposes, and the predicates of such projects in historic forms of legal inequality. The contemporary economization of public discourse indicates wide scope for such projects. Social control names a multisided and multiscalar political contest, involving both governmental efforts to manage populations through the private sector and efforts on the part of the public to hold governors to account. The chapter begins with an intellectual history of the idea of social control in anthropology and law, next turning to an ethnographic discussion of the neoliberalization of welfare policy and civil rights in the United States. The conclusion looks beyond the United States, proposing that social control—in contrast to its original meaning—today indicates fresh directions for interdisciplinary dialogue and debate over the means and ends of investment in accountability.
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