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Keenan, Sarah (2013) 'Bringing the outside(r) in: Law’s appropriation of subversive identities.' Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 64 (3). pp. 299-316.

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Abstract

This article explores some of the ways in which law appropriates subversive identities. Drawing on work from geographical, feminist and critical race approaches to property, I put forward an understanding of property as a relation of belonging ‘held up’ by space. Building on this understanding, I argue that identity can operate as property in the same way that land and material objects can, and that law appropriates subversive identities by bringing them into its hegemonic space of recognition and regulation. Law’s appropriations have a range of effects on both the individual subjects directly involved in legal proceedings and the broader spaces in and through which those subjects forge their identities. Specifically this article explores the appropriation of gay and lesbian identities in the context of immigration law, and of aboriginal identities in the context of Australia’s Northern Territory National Emergency Response Act 2007 (Cth) (NTNERA).

Item Type: Journal Article
SOAS Departments & Centres: Legacy Departments > Faculty of Law and Social Sciences > School of Law
Subjects: J Political Science > JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration
K Law > K Law (General)
ISSN: 00293105
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): https://doi.org/10.53386/nilq.v64i3.352
Date Deposited: 11 Nov 2013 14:39
URI: https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/17410

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