Legal Moves
Choreographies of Race, Law, and Empire
$205.58
- Hardcover
270 pages
- Release Date
25 August 2026
Summary
Legal Moves engages in a project of epistemological disobedience, boldly suturing concepts of dance studies—kinesthetic awareness, fleshly memory, and techniques of the body—to the legal humanities. What opens when we expand our disciplinary methods of law—from the lettered to the embodied? Might we locate a more complete portrait of law, its logic, and impact for construction of the human?
Anna Jayne Kimmel combs the laws and law-making logics of French imperial order and it…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781503646087 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1503646084 |
| Author: | Anna Jayne Kimmel |
| Publisher: | Stanford University Press |
| Imprint: | Stanford University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 270 |
| Release Date: | 25 August 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
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Critics Review
“Legal Moves assembles a dazzling array of histories and theories to examine how law works on bodies while also illuminating fugitive lines of flight. The result is a beautiful and smart theorization of embodiment, entangled in histories of race and colonialism, but always in movement.” —Amber Jamilla Musser, CUNY Graduate Center
“In exciting and original juxtapositions, Legal Moves reads law as dance score and performance, inviting readers to think of law other than through the current conventional disciplines. Kimmel’s nuanced attunement to the appearances and absences of bodies and flesh and to rhythms and tempos opens up fresh analyses of such issues as freedom of assembly and human rights.” —Marianne Constable, University of California, Berkeley
Anna Jayne Kimmel
Anna Jayne Kimmel is Assistant Professor of Dance at the Corcoran School of Arts and Design at George Washington University.
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