The UK Citizens Advice service and the plurality of actors and practices that shape “legal consciousness”
The UK Citizens Advice service and the plurality of actors and practices that shape “legal consciousness”
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英国公民咨询服务以及塑造“法律意识”的多元化参与者和实践
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2016
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S. Kirwan
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S. Kirwan
摘要英国是一个极端的“紧缩”政治的例子，它定义了几个“全球北方”背景下的“司法救助”。本文论述了在这种独特的“全球北方”环境中法律的一个维度，这些变化使其得到了救济，即咨询服务在“翻译”法律的框架方面所发挥的关键作用，这些框架是为那些寻求理解和参与主导他们生活的法律的问题的个人提供的。它们突显了参与形成讨论和解释法律的框架的方式的行为者的多元性，这种多元性破坏了一组专家为同质公众提供信息的主导形象。注意到理解“法律的意识”的参与与这些多元的行为者和做法的重要性，借鉴与英国公民咨询服务进行的研究，本文探讨了不同的方式，其中法律的信息被翻译在不同的情感动态的客户关系。它描述了咨询工作如何结合“关系法律的劳动”，一项通过“转移依恋”来改变客户的工作。
ABSTRACT The UK presents an extreme case of the “austerity” politics that define “access to justice” across several “global north” contexts. This paper addresses a dimension of law within this distinct “global north” setting that has been brought into relief by these changes, namely the key role played by advice services in “translating” legal frameworks for individuals seeking to understand and engage with the legal problems that are dominating their lives. They bring into relief, that is, the plurality of actors involved in shaping the ways in which legal frameworks are discussed and interpreted, a plurality that disrupts the dominant image in which a group of experts provide information for a homogenous public. Noting the importance for understanding “legal consciousness” of engaging with these plural actors and practices, drawing upon research carried out with the UK Citizens Advice service the paper investigates the different ways in which legal information is translated across the varying emotional dynamics of the adviser–client relationship. It describes how advice work incorporates a “relational legal labour”, a work seeking to transform the client by enabling a “shifting of attachments”.