Biblioteca Digital de VanguardiaBeyond the Law’s Ends: Files, Bureaucracy and Legal Knowledge
Files, memoranda, and paperwork in general, are seen as routine instruments of bureaucratic practice, the means for achieving an end: the legal decision. Consequently, the analysis tends to focus on the ‘results’ of institutional acts but not on the process of institutionalization that files entail....
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Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede Ecuador
2011
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| author | Barrera, Leticia |
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| description | Files, memoranda, and paperwork in general, are seen as routine instruments of bureaucratic practice, the means for achieving an end: the legal decision. Consequently, the analysis tends to focus on the ‘results’ of institutional acts but not on the process of institutionalization that files entail. Therefore law is apprehended by its ends and the legal analysis is kept within the epistemological boundaries of the same ends. In this essay, I propose to bring attention to legal files as analytical objects in their own terms. To do so, I elaborate, in the ethnographic mode, on my personal file as it unfolded in my fieldwork in the Argentine Supreme Court from August 2005 to February 2007. In looking at the file as an artifact of knowledge, I seek to bring to the surface aspects of lawmaking that remain a blind spot of socio-legal studies. |
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| spelling | iconos-article-3982024-04-23T18:01:28Z Beyond the Law’s Ends: Files, Bureaucracy and Legal Knowledge Más allá de los fines del derecho : expedientes, burocracia y conocimiento lega Barrera, Leticia Files bureaucracy law ethnography instrumentality. Expedientes Burocracia Derecho Etnografía Instrumentos Files Bureaucracy Law Ethnography Instrumentality Files, memoranda, and paperwork in general, are seen as routine instruments of bureaucratic practice, the means for achieving an end: the legal decision. Consequently, the analysis tends to focus on the ‘results’ of institutional acts but not on the process of institutionalization that files entail. Therefore law is apprehended by its ends and the legal analysis is kept within the epistemological boundaries of the same ends. In this essay, I propose to bring attention to legal files as analytical objects in their own terms. To do so, I elaborate, in the ethnographic mode, on my personal file as it unfolded in my fieldwork in the Argentine Supreme Court from August 2005 to February 2007. In looking at the file as an artifact of knowledge, I seek to bring to the surface aspects of lawmaking that remain a blind spot of socio-legal studies. Los expedientes, notas, y documentos en general, son vistos como instrumentos rutinarios de la práctica burocrática, los medios para alcanzar un fin: la decisión judicial. Por tanto, el análisis tiende a centrarse en los ‘resultados’ de los actos institucionales, pero no en el proceso de institucionalización que implican los expedientes. Por esta razón, el derecho es aprehendido por sus fines y el análisis jurídico se mantiene dentro de los límites epistemológicos de los mismos. En este ensayo, me propongo dirigir la atención a los expedientes como objetos de análisis en sus propios términos. Para hacerlo, elaboro de manera etnográfica sobre mi expediente personal tal como se desarrolló en mi trabajo de campo en la Corte Suprema de Argentina de agosto de 2005 a febrero de 2007. Al examinar el expediente como un artefacto de conocimiento, busco traer a la superficie aspectos del proceso de creación del derecho que se mantienen como un punto ciego de los estudios socio-legales. Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede Ecuador 2011-09-01 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Artículo evaluado por pares application/pdf https://iconos.flacsoandes.edu.ec/index.php/iconos/article/view/398 10.17141/iconos.41.2011.398 Íconos - Revista de Ciencias Sociales; Núm. 41 (2011): Dossier: (Re)Pensar el archivo; 57-72 Íconos - Revista de Ciencias Sociales; n. 41 (2011): Dossier: (Re)Pensar el archivo; 57-72 Íconos. Revista de Ciencias Sociales; No. 41 (2011): Dossier: (Re)Thinking the archive; 57-72 1390-8065 1390-1249 spa https://iconos.flacsoandes.edu.ec/index.php/iconos/article/view/398/384 Derechos de autor 2011 Leticia Barrera https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/deed.es_ES |
| spellingShingle | Barrera, Leticia Beyond the Law’s Ends: Files, Bureaucracy and Legal Knowledge |
| title | Beyond the Law’s Ends: Files, Bureaucracy and Legal Knowledge |
| title_full | Beyond the Law’s Ends: Files, Bureaucracy and Legal Knowledge |
| title_fullStr | Beyond the Law’s Ends: Files, Bureaucracy and Legal Knowledge |
| title_full_unstemmed | Beyond the Law’s Ends: Files, Bureaucracy and Legal Knowledge |
| title_short | Beyond the Law’s Ends: Files, Bureaucracy and Legal Knowledge |
| title_sort | beyond the law’s ends: files, bureaucracy and legal knowledge |
| url | https://iconos.flacsoandes.edu.ec/index.php/iconos/article/view/398 |