{"product_id":"legal-moves-choreographies-of-race-law-and-empire-9781503646087","title":"Legal Moves: Choreographies of Race, Law, and Empire","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLegal Moves\u003c\/i\u003e 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Anna Jayne Kimmel combs the laws and law-making logics of French imperial order and its postcolonial legacy to surface the already-embedded corporeal attentions and choreographic features of legal studies. The book moves across analysis of seventeenth-century French legal codes of conduct that structured race and empire within the metropole and its overseas horizons, twentieth-century scenes of police violence during anti-colonial protest in France, twenty-first century anxieties of assembly in postcolonial Algeria, and embodied aesthetics contained within human rights discourse. By tracing disciplined histories of dance notation, Kimmel argues laws have long operated as a societal score which script movements and conscript citizens into racialized categories of (non)being. Drawing upon archival material, legal records, and performance practice, \u003ci\u003eLegal Moves\u003c\/i\u003e calls to reimagine the human within Western jurisprudence of the body.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anna Jayne Kimmel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/25\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781503646087","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48348209545353,"sku":"9781503646087","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_a7a2b5a7-3e30-4f20-876e-82b1777a5523.jpg?v=1789455497","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/legal-moves-choreographies-of-race-law-and-empire-9781503646087","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}