Checkpoints, camps and control: how violence and the law intertwine

By Tess Scholfield-Peters, Casual Academic, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney

In her hybrid memoir 58 Facets, lawyer and legal anthropologist Marika Sosnowski traverses time and societies to reveal intricacies of law enacted by states to control, suppress, displace and, in some instances, erase people. For myriad reasons, these people do not possess the legal documentation to survive.

Many of us take the law for granted, or at least, do not have to think much about how it intersects with our daily lives. Similarly, many of us may not think about the pulse of revolution and resistance,…

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