When the law regulates, it also
marginalises. Indigenous people, the GLBTI community, women, children, the
homeless and others are all victimised by the force of this regulation. For many
people belonging to these communities, the law has left them with a sense
of abandonment – the law does not recognise the realities that they live out on
a day to day basis. In so doing, sites of contest are opened up in which
marginalised bodies attempt to challenge law makers and law enforcers.
Semiotics allows us useful methods for exploring these interactions. For
instance, the signs of both groups (literal and metaphorical), the language
employed by groups (how they complement and contrast each other in differing
legal and social realities) and acts deterrence and defiance are all possible
areas of inquiry. This issue draws attention to the many different ways
marginalised groups attempt to redress or ‘(re)imagine’ the law. This special
issue for the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law invites high
quality contributions from scholars of all disciplines that undertake
rhetorical, hermeneutic, sociolinguistic, discourse, aesthetic or semiotic
analyses of the law and marginalised and/or disadvantaged groups. Of particular
interest are papers discussing indigenous rights, homeless rights, rights of
women and children rights, GLBTI rights, refugee and asylum seeker rights and
the intersections between law and philosophy, visual arts, music, poetry and
literature. Submissions to be made in English only.
Guest Editor: Ben Hightower (Legal Intersections Research Centre,
University of Wollongong, Australia)
Submissions: send paper proposal (max. 400 words) by *15 July 2014*
to bh45@uowmail.edu.au
Selection: selected authors will be invited by 15 August 2014 to submit a
full paper Final submissions: papers (max. 9,000 words) to be sent by 15 March
2015 for double-blind peer review
Publication: it is anticipated that papers will be published in Volume 28/4
of the IJSL (December 2015)
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