Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction, Emily Grabham and Siân M. Beynon-Jones

SOCIAL TIME: COURTS, LITIGATION AND PUBLIC AUTHORITY

1. The Long Sudden Death of Antonin Scalia, Carol J. Greenhouse

2. ‘No. I Won’t Go Back’: National Time, Trauma and Legacies of Symphysiotomy in Ireland, Máiréad Enright

3. Time-Spaces of Adjudication in the U.S. Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Philip Ashton

4. On delay and duration. Law’s Temporal Orders in Historical Child Sexual Abuse Cases, Sinéad Ring

POST/COLONIAL TIMES

5. ‘Give Us His Name’: Time, Law, and Language in a Settler Colony, Genevieve Renard Painter

6. Traditional Medicines, Law, and the (Dis)ordering of Temporalities, Emilie Cloatre

7. Making Land Liquid: On Time and Title Registration, Sarah Keenan

THE POLITICS OF LABOUR TIME

8. Regulating the 'Half-timer' in Colonial India: Factory Legislation, its Anomalies and Resistance, Maya John

9. Work-time Technology and Unpaid Labour in Paid Care Work: A Socio-legal Analysis of Employment Contracts and Electronic Monitoring, L.J.B. Hayes

TECHNOLOGIES AND INFRASTRUCTURES OF TIME

10. Standards in the Shadows for Everyone to See: The Supranational Regulation of Time and the Concern over Temporal Pluralism, Kevin Birth

11. Energy Governance, Risk, and Temporality: The Construction of Energy Time through Law and Regulation, Antti Silvast, Mikko Jalas and Jenny Rinkinen

TOPOLOGIES OF TIME

12. Doing Times, Doing Truths: The Legal Case File as a Folded Object, Irene van Oorschot

13. Topological Time, Law, and Subjectivity: A Description in Five Folds, Sameena Mulla

Index

About the Author

Siân M. Beynon-Jones is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of York.


Emily Grabham is Professor of Law at Kent Law School, University of Kent.