The social life of Authoritarian Legality
INTRODUCTION
The social life of Authoritarian Legality is a five-year research project based at SOAS University of London, funded by the Leverhulme Trust. We explore how contemporary authoritarian states seek to change the composition of their societies by targetting parts of their populations - minority groups, peoples' movements, civil society groups - through the law. By looking at the social life of such laws in contemporary times, this project aims to understand the relationship between emerging authoritarian states, law, and the re-composition of society.
Summary of the project
Authoritarian regimes do not just aim to centralise their own power. They also often seek to radically alter the composition of their societies and they enact such brutal policies through law. By looking at the social life of such laws in contemporary authoritarian contexts this project aims to understand the relationship between emerging authoritarian states, law, and the re-composition of society.
Through ethnographic fieldwork and the building of data-sets, this project will study how contemporary authoritarian states use laws to remake society and how affected communities respond to these laws
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