Poverty law and legal activism : lives that slide out of view / Adam Gearey.
2018
KF336 .G43 2018 (Mapit)
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Author
Title
Poverty law and legal activism : lives that slide out of view / Adam Gearey.
Imprint
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
Copyright
©2018
Description
210 pages ; 25 cm
Formatted Contents Note
Lives that slide out of view
Something happening : activism and the problem of the "white ally"
Come together one more time : poverty and critical legal studies
The poor and the constitution
Reification and the consciousness of the welfare poor
I must make something of myself : conscience, anxiety and "being with" the poor
Theory in the key of life : the anxiety of the poverty lawyer
A long way to nowhere : remembering the movement
Diving for dear life : poverty law and the broken middle
Kick out the jams : poverty and critical legal theory.
Something happening : activism and the problem of the "white ally"
Come together one more time : poverty and critical legal studies
The poor and the constitution
Reification and the consciousness of the welfare poor
I must make something of myself : conscience, anxiety and "being with" the poor
Theory in the key of life : the anxiety of the poverty lawyer
A long way to nowhere : remembering the movement
Diving for dear life : poverty law and the broken middle
Kick out the jams : poverty and critical legal theory.
Summary
"Linking critical legal thinking to constitutional scholarship and a practical tradition of US lawyering that is orientated around anti-poverty activism, this book offers an original, revisionist account of contemporary jurisprudence, legal theory and legal activism. The book argues that we need to think in terms of a much broader inheritance for critical legal thinking that derives from the social ethics of the Progressive Era, new left understandings of 'creative democracy' and radical theology. To this end, it puts jurisprudence and legal theory in touch with recent scholarship on the American left and, indeed, with attempts to recover the legacies of Progressive Era thinking, the civil rights struggle and the Great Society. Focusing on the theory and practice of poverty law in the period stretching from the mid-1960s to the present day, the book argues that at the heart of both critical and liberal thinking is an understanding of the lawyer as an ethical actor: inspired by faith or politics to appreciate the potential and limits of law in the struggle against economic inequality."-- Back cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Call Number
KF336 .G43 2018
Language
English
ISBN
9781138556058 hardcover
113855605X hardcover
9781315151304
113855605X hardcover
9781315151304
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