Monk, Daniel (2024) Law and friendship: principles, projections and paradoxes. In: Swennen, F. and Goossens, E. and Van Hof, T. (eds.) Rethinking Law’s Families and Family Law. Proceedings of the 18th World Conference of the International Society of Family Law. Elgar Studies in International Family Law. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 156-174. ISBN 9781035338405. (In Press)
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Abstract
Proponents of an expansive family law – one that starts from an understanding of the complex connections in lived embodied lives – have remarked on the failure of law to recognise friendship. Indeed, friendship has been a site of troubling the very definition of families and complicating arguments about the intertwined functions of the family and the state. This paper aims to identify and distinguish the arguments made by proponents for reform, in order to identify the underlying ideological, pragmatic and emotional roots of the claims. It endeavours to bring the literature on friendship into dialogue with empirical research, critiques of anti-normativity frameworks and critical thinking about ‘care’, ‘Christianity’ and uses and limits of ‘equality’. In troubling the claims for legal recognition it seeks to provoke conversations about the inherent paradoxes of the desires and discursive projections placed on friendship and the role of family law
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| Item Type: | Book Section |
|---|---|
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Business and Law > Birkbeck Law School |
| Depositing User: | Daniel Monk |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Dec 2024 10:37 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Dec 2024 13:42 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/52969 |
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