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  • 8 - Law: A Map of Misreading

  • Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
  • Book:
    Toward a New Legal Common Sense
    Published online:
    08 October 2020
    Print publication:
    01 October 2020, pp 496-521

  • Summary

    In Chapter Eight I continue my theoretical endeavors, this time drawing on a conception of law as a map and offering an analysis of law from the point of view of cartography and its procedures (scale, projection, and symbolization). I concentrate on forms of law, using them as revolving doors through which different forms of power and knowledge circulate. The type of close-up view I am calling for can only be obtained in the context of concrete struggles as they unfold, mobilizing, inventing, confronting, appropriating or rejecting different forms of legality and illegality. The purpose of my analysis is to show that, since the struggles on regulation/emancipation are never fought in general but rather in specific social sites, involving specific issues and social groups, and drawing on specific instrumental and expressive resources, it is of crucial importance and strategic value to understand the limits and the possibilities of the different contexts of struggle, in this particular case, social struggle centered around law, legality and illegality.