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Embodying Law In The Garden: An Autoethnographic Account Of An Office Of Law, Matilda Arvidsson Jan 2014

Embodying Law In The Garden: An Autoethnographic Account Of An Office Of Law, Matilda Arvidsson

Dr Matilda Arvidsson

Based on an autoethnographical study of the office of the tingsnotarie this article questions the relation between the ethical self and the act of taking up a judicial office, employing the question of how I can live with (my) law. While the office and the ethical self are kept apart, often by recourse to persona, I make a case for the attendance to the self in examinations of ethical responsibility when pursuing an office of law. I propose that the garden, and in particular the practices and notions of (en)closure, (loss of) direction, cultivation, (dis)order, authorship and care-for-the-other which are …


Young Women And Urbanization - Trying To Cope In Crowded Cities, Matilda Arvidsson, Lucia Kiwala May 2003

Young Women And Urbanization - Trying To Cope In Crowded Cities, Matilda Arvidsson, Lucia Kiwala

Dr Matilda Arvidsson

The article pins down problems of urbanization, poverty, and youth at risk, focusing on the situation of young women in African slums.