Emily Grabham
Biographic Data
| ID | 3649166 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emily Grabham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emily |
| FAMILY NAME | Grabham |
| SIGNATURE | GRABHAM E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kent |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4699-658X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 96 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
‘Acting amidst’ – a conversation with Jane Bennett, facilitated by Anna Grear
Jane’s paper (‘Acting amidst: some concepts and practices’ in this special issue) was followed by the following discussion
Affect, action, and incommensurability
Working with colleagues in 2020 on the A Day at a Time project, we commissioned a directive from the United Kingdom’s Mass Observation Project for volunteer writers to record their changing experience of time during the Covid-19 pandemic. Our specific task was to try to understand how people were living and creating legal temporalities during this moment of upheaval. The responses were rich, detailed, valuable, yet often seemingly incommensurable…
Decertifying Gender
‘The Future of Legal Gender’ project has assessed the potential implications for feminist legal scholarship and activism of decertifying sex/gender. Decertification refers to the state moving away from officially determining or registering sex/gender. This article explores the potential impact of such moves on equal pay law and gender pay gap reporting. Equal pay and gender pay gap reporting laws provide an important focus for the project because…
The rules are all over the place’
This article analyses practices of pandemic time making that surrounded the imposition and communication of laws restricting daily life in parts of the United Kingdom in spring 2020. With colleagues, we commissioned a Mass Observation Project directive in summer 2020, asking contributors about their everyday experience of time during the COVID‐19 pandemic. We analyse how legal temporalities emerge across 228 responses. Initially, law making seeme…
The crafty power of text
This article proposes that socio‐legal scholars study statutes and legislative drafting on their own terms. Legislative drafting may seem to have little relevance within approaches that emphasize law's wider social effects. Yet statutes can be defamiliarized, and the dynamics through which they are drafted better understood. This can help statutes to answer for their legal and social power and also assist scholars working in law and other discipl…
On Moving the Table
Through a commentary on the enriching experience of receiving feedback through the Brewing Legal Times author-meets-reader session in February 2018, this piece reflects on the intellectual generosity and scholarly labour that makes such sessions an important form of academic social reproduction
Wench Tactics? Openings in Conditions of Closure
Picking up the question of what FLaK might be, this editorial considers the relationship between openness and closure in feminist legal studies. How do we draw on feminist struggles for openness in common resources, from security to knowledge, as we inhabit a compromised space in commercial publishing? We think about this first in relation to the content of this issue: on image-based abuse continuums, asylum struggles, trials of protestors, custo…
Time and technique
This paper aims to bring an appreciation of legal form, technicalities, and legislative drafting to growing interdisciplinary literatures on time and governance. Scholarship across politics, geography, science studies and anthropology continues to trace the productive force and specific qualities of diverse temporal horizons. At the same time socio-legal scholars increasingly focus on the work of making and negotiating law, engaging with the dogg…
Legal Form and Temporal Rationalities in UK Work-Life Balance Law
This article attempts to crack open the temporal assumptions in the goal of ‘balancing’ work and family, as it is mobilised in UK law. Within studies of gender and labour, ‘balance’, as a concept and a politico-legal objective, is worthy of much more scholarly attention than it has received to date. In the UK context, balance is understood as a means of achieving equilibrium, both at the level of the labour market and within the context of unpaid…
Bodily Integrity and the Surgical Management of Intersex
Surgeries inevitably raise questions of bodily integrity: how the post-surgical body reframes (or does not reframe) its experiences of functionality to incorporate new features. Nevertheless, when we try to define or delimit the concept of bodily integrity, it becomes increasingly important to think about how the physical and social unease caused by some forms of surgeries sits alongside the more transformative potential of surgical bodily modifi…
Doing Things with Time
This paper focuses on the increasing significance of flexibility arguments to UK employment equality law. It makes use of the well-evidenced legal and governmental preoccupation with working time to investigate the production and circulation of concepts of flexibility through equality law case reports from the period 2001–2010. With case reports as my main focus, I trace how flexibility emerges through legal documental networks, so as to work out…
From social security to individual responsibility (Part Two)
This is the second paper of a 2-part article which draws on interdisciplinary feminist perspectives to critique New Labour's welfare reform agenda. Through examining the Welfare Reform Bill and the subsequent Welfare Reform Act 2009, the paper argues that the increased use of conditionality and sanctions in relation to female benefit claimants – particularly lone mothers – “writes-off” their caring and informal work and pushes these women into lo…
Governing Permanence
The UK Gender Recognition Act 2004 contains a provision requiring that transgender applicants intend to remain in their acquired gender ‘until death’. While apparently a straightforward administrative demand within a piece of archetypal New Labour legislation, this article argues that the requirement is unnecessary on the legislation’s own terms. Focusing instead on the temporal work that the provision performs in relation to gender recognition, …
Shaking Mr Jones
This article is about how law constructs its own truths through touch. Whilst there has been an impressive body of work on how the visual paradigm permeates law, less has been written about the other senses and their connected clusters of knowledge, specifically the haptic – or touch-related – paradigm. One of the aims of the article, therefore, is to bring touch to sociolegal theory. Another aim, however, is to trace some ways in which encounter…
Intersectionality and beyond
Flagging' the Skin
Just as the nation is imagined and produced through everyday rhetoric and maps and flags, it is also constructed on the skin, and through bodies, by different types of corporeal `flagging'. In this article, I use two examples of contemporary surgical procedures to explore these dynamics. Aesthetic surgeries on `white' subjects are not often interrogated for their racializing effects, but I use the concept of `flagging' to explore how these surger…
Intersectionality and Beyond
Part One: Mapping Intersectionalities 1. Joanne Conaghan: Intersectionality and the Feminist Project in Law 2. Leslie McCall: The Complexity of Intersectionality Part Two: Confronting Law 3. Toni Williams: Intersectionality Analysis in the Sentencing of Aboriginal Women in Canada: What Difference Does it Make? 4. Doris Buss: Sexual Violence, Ethnicity, and Intersectionality in International Criminal Law 5. Suzanne B. Goldberg: Intersectionality i…
Special Issue – Encountering Human Rights
It’s Another Way Of Making A Really Big Fuss” Human Rights And Women’s Activism In The United Kingdom
Citizen Bodies, Intersex Citizenship
The aim of this article is to assess the use of sexual citizenship and intimate citizenship in articulating a concept of ‘intersex citizenship’. Intersex activism diverges in important ways from feminist, queer, lesbian and gay, and trans activism. Nevertheless, concepts of sexual and intimate citizenship help in thinking about the effects of family and kin structures on intersex corporeality, the impact of new technologies on intersex activism, …
Taxonomies of Inequality
Intersectional discrimination challenges not only the structure of equality law, but also the techniques that lawyers employ in assessing and arguing discrimination cases. Client forms, akin to questionnaires, assist lawyers in obtaining a full picture of the client's circumstances and in avoiding the omission of any potential legal remedies. Chronologies of events assist lawyers in mapping discriminatory events and establishing that the client i…
Intersectionality and Beyond
Part One: Mapping Intersectionalities 1. Joanne Conaghan: Intersectionality and the Feminist Project in Law 2. Leslie McCall: The Complexity of Intersectionality Part Two: Confronting Law 3. Toni Williams: Intersectionality Analysis in the Sentencing of Aboriginal Women in Canada: What Difference Does it Make? 4. Doris Buss: Sexual Violence, Ethnicity, and Intersectionality in International Criminal Law 5. Suzanne B. Goldberg: Intersectionality i…
Governing Permanence
The UK Gender Recognition Act 2004 contains a provision requiring that transgender applicants intend to remain in their acquired gender ‘until death’. While apparently a straightforward administrative demand within a piece of archetypal New Labour legislation, this article argues that the requirement is unnecessary on the legislation’s own terms. Focusing instead on the temporal work that the provision performs in relation to gender recognition, …
Legal Form and Temporal Rationalities in UK Work-Life Balance Law
This article attempts to crack open the temporal assumptions in the goal of ‘balancing’ work and family, as it is mobilised in UK law. Within studies of gender and labour, ‘balance’, as a concept and a politico-legal objective, is worthy of much more scholarly attention than it has received to date. In the UK context, balance is understood as a means of achieving equilibrium, both at the level of the labour market and within the context of unpaid…
Flagging' the Skin
Just as the nation is imagined and produced through everyday rhetoric and maps and flags, it is also constructed on the skin, and through bodies, by different types of corporeal `flagging'. In this article, I use two examples of contemporary surgical procedures to explore these dynamics. Aesthetic surgeries on `white' subjects are not often interrogated for their racializing effects, but I use the concept of `flagging' to explore how these surger…
From social security to individual responsibility (Part Two)
This is the second paper of a 2-part article which draws on interdisciplinary feminist perspectives to critique New Labour's welfare reform agenda. Through examining the Welfare Reform Bill and the subsequent Welfare Reform Act 2009, the paper argues that the increased use of conditionality and sanctions in relation to female benefit claimants – particularly lone mothers – “writes-off” their caring and informal work and pushes these women into lo…
Time and technique
This paper aims to bring an appreciation of legal form, technicalities, and legislative drafting to growing interdisciplinary literatures on time and governance. Scholarship across politics, geography, science studies and anthropology continues to trace the productive force and specific qualities of diverse temporal horizons. At the same time socio-legal scholars increasingly focus on the work of making and negotiating law, engaging with the dogg…
The rules are all over the place’
This article analyses practices of pandemic time making that surrounded the imposition and communication of laws restricting daily life in parts of the United Kingdom in spring 2020. With colleagues, we commissioned a Mass Observation Project directive in summer 2020, asking contributors about their everyday experience of time during the COVID‐19 pandemic. We analyse how legal temporalities emerge across 228 responses. Initially, law making seeme…
Taxonomies of Inequality
Intersectional discrimination challenges not only the structure of equality law, but also the techniques that lawyers employ in assessing and arguing discrimination cases. Client forms, akin to questionnaires, assist lawyers in obtaining a full picture of the client's circumstances and in avoiding the omission of any potential legal remedies. Chronologies of events assist lawyers in mapping discriminatory events and establishing that the client i…
Shaking Mr Jones
This article is about how law constructs its own truths through touch. Whilst there has been an impressive body of work on how the visual paradigm permeates law, less has been written about the other senses and their connected clusters of knowledge, specifically the haptic – or touch-related – paradigm. One of the aims of the article, therefore, is to bring touch to sociolegal theory. Another aim, however, is to trace some ways in which encounter…
Doing Things with Time
This paper focuses on the increasing significance of flexibility arguments to UK employment equality law. It makes use of the well-evidenced legal and governmental preoccupation with working time to investigate the production and circulation of concepts of flexibility through equality law case reports from the period 2001–2010. With case reports as my main focus, I trace how flexibility emerges through legal documental networks, so as to work out…
Decertifying Gender
‘The Future of Legal Gender’ project has assessed the potential implications for feminist legal scholarship and activism of decertifying sex/gender. Decertification refers to the state moving away from officially determining or registering sex/gender. This article explores the potential impact of such moves on equal pay law and gender pay gap reporting. Equal pay and gender pay gap reporting laws provide an important focus for the project because…
Wench Tactics? Openings in Conditions of Closure
Picking up the question of what FLaK might be, this editorial considers the relationship between openness and closure in feminist legal studies. How do we draw on feminist struggles for openness in common resources, from security to knowledge, as we inhabit a compromised space in commercial publishing? We think about this first in relation to the content of this issue: on image-based abuse continuums, asylum struggles, trials of protestors, custo…
Bodily Integrity and the Surgical Management of Intersex
Surgeries inevitably raise questions of bodily integrity: how the post-surgical body reframes (or does not reframe) its experiences of functionality to incorporate new features. Nevertheless, when we try to define or delimit the concept of bodily integrity, it becomes increasingly important to think about how the physical and social unease caused by some forms of surgeries sits alongside the more transformative potential of surgical bodily modifi…
Special Issue – Encountering Human Rights
Taxonomies of Inequality
Intersectional discrimination challenges not only the structure of equality law, but also the techniques that lawyers employ in assessing and arguing discrimination cases. Client forms, akin to questionnaires, assist lawyers in obtaining a full picture of the client's circumstances and in avoiding the omission of any potential legal remedies. Chronologies of events assist lawyers in mapping discriminatory events and establishing that the client i…
Citizen Bodies, Intersex Citizenship
The aim of this article is to assess the use of sexual citizenship and intimate citizenship in articulating a concept of ‘intersex citizenship’. Intersex activism diverges in important ways from feminist, queer, lesbian and gay, and trans activism. Nevertheless, concepts of sexual and intimate citizenship help in thinking about the effects of family and kin structures on intersex corporeality, the impact of new technologies on intersex activism, …
Intersectionality and Beyond
Part One: Mapping Intersectionalities 1. Joanne Conaghan: Intersectionality and the Feminist Project in Law 2. Leslie McCall: The Complexity of Intersectionality Part Two: Confronting Law 3. Toni Williams: Intersectionality Analysis in the Sentencing of Aboriginal Women in Canada: What Difference Does it Make? 4. Doris Buss: Sexual Violence, Ethnicity, and Intersectionality in International Criminal Law 5. Suzanne B. Goldberg: Intersectionality i…
Special Issue – Encountering Human Rights
It’s Another Way Of Making A Really Big Fuss” Human Rights And Women’s Activism In The United Kingdom
Shaking Mr Jones
This article is about how law constructs its own truths through touch. Whilst there has been an impressive body of work on how the visual paradigm permeates law, less has been written about the other senses and their connected clusters of knowledge, specifically the haptic – or touch-related – paradigm. One of the aims of the article, therefore, is to bring touch to sociolegal theory. Another aim, however, is to trace some ways in which encounter…
Intersectionality and beyond
Flagging' the Skin
Just as the nation is imagined and produced through everyday rhetoric and maps and flags, it is also constructed on the skin, and through bodies, by different types of corporeal `flagging'. In this article, I use two examples of contemporary surgical procedures to explore these dynamics. Aesthetic surgeries on `white' subjects are not often interrogated for their racializing effects, but I use the concept of `flagging' to explore how these surger…
From social security to individual responsibility (Part Two)
This is the second paper of a 2-part article which draws on interdisciplinary feminist perspectives to critique New Labour's welfare reform agenda. Through examining the Welfare Reform Bill and the subsequent Welfare Reform Act 2009, the paper argues that the increased use of conditionality and sanctions in relation to female benefit claimants – particularly lone mothers – “writes-off” their caring and informal work and pushes these women into lo…
Governing Permanence
The UK Gender Recognition Act 2004 contains a provision requiring that transgender applicants intend to remain in their acquired gender ‘until death’. While apparently a straightforward administrative demand within a piece of archetypal New Labour legislation, this article argues that the requirement is unnecessary on the legislation’s own terms. Focusing instead on the temporal work that the provision performs in relation to gender recognition, …
Doing Things with Time
This paper focuses on the increasing significance of flexibility arguments to UK employment equality law. It makes use of the well-evidenced legal and governmental preoccupation with working time to investigate the production and circulation of concepts of flexibility through equality law case reports from the period 2001–2010. With case reports as my main focus, I trace how flexibility emerges through legal documental networks, so as to work out…
Bodily Integrity and the Surgical Management of Intersex
Surgeries inevitably raise questions of bodily integrity: how the post-surgical body reframes (or does not reframe) its experiences of functionality to incorporate new features. Nevertheless, when we try to define or delimit the concept of bodily integrity, it becomes increasingly important to think about how the physical and social unease caused by some forms of surgeries sits alongside the more transformative potential of surgical bodily modifi…
Legal Form and Temporal Rationalities in UK Work-Life Balance Law
This article attempts to crack open the temporal assumptions in the goal of ‘balancing’ work and family, as it is mobilised in UK law. Within studies of gender and labour, ‘balance’, as a concept and a politico-legal objective, is worthy of much more scholarly attention than it has received to date. In the UK context, balance is understood as a means of achieving equilibrium, both at the level of the labour market and within the context of unpaid…
Time and technique
This paper aims to bring an appreciation of legal form, technicalities, and legislative drafting to growing interdisciplinary literatures on time and governance. Scholarship across politics, geography, science studies and anthropology continues to trace the productive force and specific qualities of diverse temporal horizons. At the same time socio-legal scholars increasingly focus on the work of making and negotiating law, engaging with the dogg…
Wench Tactics? Openings in Conditions of Closure
Picking up the question of what FLaK might be, this editorial considers the relationship between openness and closure in feminist legal studies. How do we draw on feminist struggles for openness in common resources, from security to knowledge, as we inhabit a compromised space in commercial publishing? We think about this first in relation to the content of this issue: on image-based abuse continuums, asylum struggles, trials of protestors, custo…
On Moving the Table
Through a commentary on the enriching experience of receiving feedback through the Brewing Legal Times author-meets-reader session in February 2018, this piece reflects on the intellectual generosity and scholarly labour that makes such sessions an important form of academic social reproduction
The crafty power of text
This article proposes that socio‐legal scholars study statutes and legislative drafting on their own terms. Legislative drafting may seem to have little relevance within approaches that emphasize law's wider social effects. Yet statutes can be defamiliarized, and the dynamics through which they are drafted better understood. This can help statutes to answer for their legal and social power and also assist scholars working in law and other discipl…
Decertifying Gender
‘The Future of Legal Gender’ project has assessed the potential implications for feminist legal scholarship and activism of decertifying sex/gender. Decertification refers to the state moving away from officially determining or registering sex/gender. This article explores the potential impact of such moves on equal pay law and gender pay gap reporting. Equal pay and gender pay gap reporting laws provide an important focus for the project because…
The rules are all over the place’
This article analyses practices of pandemic time making that surrounded the imposition and communication of laws restricting daily life in parts of the United Kingdom in spring 2020. With colleagues, we commissioned a Mass Observation Project directive in summer 2020, asking contributors about their everyday experience of time during the COVID‐19 pandemic. We analyse how legal temporalities emerge across 228 responses. Initially, law making seeme…
Affect, action, and incommensurability
Working with colleagues in 2020 on the A Day at a Time project, we commissioned a directive from the United Kingdom’s Mass Observation Project for volunteer writers to record their changing experience of time during the Covid-19 pandemic. Our specific task was to try to understand how people were living and creating legal temporalities during this moment of upheaval. The responses were rich, detailed, valuable, yet often seemingly incommensurable…
‘Acting amidst’ – a conversation with Jane Bennett, facilitated by Anna Grear
Jane’s paper (‘Acting amidst: some concepts and practices’ in this special issue) was followed by the following discussion
Sociology (19 works) · Political science (17 works) · Law (16 works) · Law (14 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Law and economics (5 works) · Law in Society and Culture (5 works)