Science Fiction as Legal Imaginary

Alex Green (University of York, UK), Mitchell Travis (University of Leeds, UK), Kieran Tranter (Griffith University, Australia)

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English

Routledge
21 November 2024

Literary studies: general; Social & cultural history; Cultural studies; Media studies; Social law

Series: TechNomos

This book examines how science fiction informs the legal imagination of technological futures.

Science fiction, the contributors to this book argue, is a storehouse of images, tropes, concepts and memes that inform the legal imagination of the future, and in doing so generate impetus for change. Specifically, the contributors examine how science fictions imagine human life in space, in the digital and as formed and negotiated by corporations. They then connect this imaginary to how law should be understood in the present and changed for the future. Across the chapters, there is an urgent sense of the need for law – as it is has been, and as it might become – to order and safeguard the future for a multiplicity of vulnerable entities.

This book will appeal to scholars and students with interests in law and technology, legal theory, cultural legal studies and law and the humanities.

Edited by: Alex Green (University of York UK), Mitchell Travis (University of Leeds, UK), Kieran Tranter (Griffith University, Australia)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 662g
ISBN: 9781032534374
ISBN 10: 1032534370
Series: TechNomos
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 21 November 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Alex Green is Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of York, UK. Mitchell Travis is Director of the Centre for Law and Social Justice at the University of Leeds, UK. Kieran Tranter is Chair of Law, Technology and Future at the School of Law, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.