Reza Banakar

Lund University, Sociology of Law, Faculty Member

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Reza Banakar is Professor and Director of Research in the Sociology
of Law Department at Lund University. He has previously held the
positions of Professor of Socio-Legal Studies at the Department of
Advanced Legal Studies at the University of Westminster and Research
Fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of
Oxford. His recent publications include Law and Social Theory (co-edited with Max Travers, Hart Publishing, 2013), Normativity in Legal Sociology (Springer, 2015) and Driving Culture in Iran: Law and Society on the Roads of the Islamic Republic (I. B. Tauris, 2016).

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Law, Policy and Social Control Amidst Flux

This chapter will begin with a brief discussion of early modernity and the rise of the welfare st... more This chapter will begin with a brief discussion of early modernity and the rise of the welfare state, before going on to explore how law and legal regulation change as we enter “late modernity”. The notion of “late modernity” – not to be confused with postmodernity – captures how industrially advanced societies evolve, when globalisation, aided by information technology, accelerates rapidly at the end of the twentieth century. Globalisation speeds up the movement of capital, information, goods, services, people, images and ideas across the globe, thus, dislodging social and cultural norms from their context in time and space. It shifts social and cultural boundaries, enhancing “reflexivity” and social disembeddedness of individuals and collectivises, giving rise to pluralities of values, norms and laws, on the one hand, and to uncertainties, anxieties and “ontological insecurities,” on the other. Enhanced reflexivity – the constant awareness of existing alternative choices, moral standards and modes of action brought on by the consequences of globalisation – offers new possibilities as the agency increasingly frees itself from the normative constraints of institutions. Fuelled by a ubiquitous culture of consumerism and facilitated by digital technology, this heightened reflexivity helps to advance hyper-individualism across society, emphasising individual rights divorced from their corresponding responsibilities and concerns with collective “social good”. This, in turn, destabilises social relations and structures which previously gave a sense of cohesion, permanence and continuity to modernity. What does hold society together and what is the role of law and regulation under the liquid conditions of late modernity? These are among the questions that will guide us through this chapter.

Keywords: Law, regulation, globalisation, late modernity, industrialisation, materiality, digitalisation, consemurism

Integrating Reciprocal Perspectives: On Gurvitch's Theory of Immediate Jural Experience

Canadian journal of law and society, 2001

This paper suggests that many of Gurvitch's ideas, which were originally presented in an abstract... more This paper suggests that many of Gurvitch's ideas, which were originally presented in an abstract fashion, are still highly pertinent to socio-legal analysis. They may be employed in empirical research in a revised form, which would make them receptive to operationalisation. To this end, I shall focus on some of the main theoretical ideas developed by Gurvitch, reinterpreting them critically and in the context of the socio-legal research of the last few decades. Then, I shall apply them to empirical data collected through various studies. The question prompting this examination is whether Gurvitch's theoretical insights could enhance our understanding of such data and thus open new avenues of socio-legal enquiry.

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