Street-Level Sovereignty

Sarah Marusek is associate professor of public law at the University of Hawai’i at Hilo.John Brigham is professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

This intriguing volume compels the reader to consider how law and sovereignty play out perpetually in our everyday lives, our lives lived on ‘the street'. . . Bringing together a diverse collection of authors writing on a wide range of topics, the chapters are unified in their showing of how ubiquitous dynamics of law and sovereignty are, and how they are typically overlooked and unseen.

• Chapter 1: ‘Street’ as TheoryJan M. BroekmanChapter 2: Sharing Conflict: Law, Justice, and the StreetAndrea PavoniChapter 3: Everyday Jurisprudence in Urban Australia: Negotiating the Space of Legal PerformancesRichard Mohr and Nadirsyah HosenChapter 4: Sex in the Era of ConsentMargaret MottChapter 5: Asphyxia: Naming Police Brutality as Street-Level SovereigntyAndrés Fabián Henao CastroChapter 6: Haircuts and Power: Sovereignty and the MilitaryAllen LinkenChapter 7: Images of Access to Law in the Age of Body ScannersJohn BrighamChapter 8: Laughing Matters: Critical Race Theory and ComedyAaron LorenzChapter 9: Ears on the Street: Coqui Frog Patrols and the Guarding of Silence in One Hawaiian VillageMarilyn Brown and Sarah MarusekChapter 10: Naples’ Piazza Cavour or the Playground of the LawPatrícia Branco