Bronwen Morgan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3686122 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bronwen Morgan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bronwen |
| FAMILY NAME | Morgan |
| SIGNATURE | MORGAN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9288-0791 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 129 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Institutional design in commons-based sharing economies
This paper presents an analytical mapping of institutional design possibilities for alternative ways for digital platforms to institutionalise property and corporate form. It builds on the institutional imagination catalysed by three vignettes of experimental sharing economy initiatives presented towards the start of the paper, each of which highlights the imbrication and interdependence between economic and social dimensions of the sharing econo…
Reflections on the first year of Global Social Challenges Journal and looking to the future
Prefigurative Legality
Since the early 2000s, many of the left groups that spurred the alt-globalization movement have embraced directly democratic organizing and the creation of ethical relationships and subjectivities far more than they have pursued projects to reform legal and political institutions. These practices are often described as prefigurative because people are working to build alternative possible futures in the here-and-now outside of dominant statist an…
Prefigurative legality
This paper argues that prefigurative legality plays an important role in crafting municipalist strategy. We explore the experience of the City of Sydney in relation to new municipalism, focusing on its trajectory as a ‘boundary case’ that generates incrementally accrued transformative potential under conditions of muted political partisanship. The paper argues that at least in a boundary case such as this, legality can be a key and underappreciat…
Contested Common Space, Regulation and Inclusion at the Coogee Women’s Pool
This article concerns two disputes that occurred between 2020–22 at the Coogee Women’s Pool, a public ocean pool in Sydney reserved for use only by women. One contest concerned the governance of the pool by its Management Committee related to differing conceptions of the ethos of the pool and the nature of its custodianship. The other concerned the exclusion of trans women from the pool over the definition of ‘women’ allowed access to the facilit…
Addressing the global social challenges of our time
Place-based pedagogies of hope
The need to engage students in thinking about the politics of law, especially in a time of escalating climate and other crises, is increasingly urgent. In this paper, we discuss a series of place-based teaching strategies designed to foster critical legal thinking, but also hope and a sense of agency. Inspired by a range of scholars – Bruno Latour, Doreen Massey, Henry Giroux and J.K. Gibson-Graham – we use context in an effort to cultivate what …
What does a right to repair tell us about our relationship with technology
This article examines the recommendations of the recent Productivity Commission Inquiry regarding the right to repair through the lens of social issues surrounding the right to repair movement. It describes the right to repair movement in Australia and globally and examines which repair practices are considered important by the Commission, and the limitations of the Commission’s preoccupation with existing repair markets. It also discusses changi…
Law in context as terrestrial politics
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The Sharing Economy
The sharing economy is an emergent field of scholarship. This review explores two clusters of debate regarding the sharing economy and seeks to discern the lines of a productive dialogue between them. It suggests that the current state of scholarship on law in the sharing economy is a complex and asymmetrical mix of narrative articulation and empirical exploration. The first cluster focuses on an on-demand commercial vision of the sharing economy…
Telling Stories Beautifully
This article explores the expressive and constitutive dimensions of hybrid legal forms emerging as vehicles for grass‐roots innovations that seek to forge renewed economic trajectories. Drawing on a relational perspective, it analyses company constitutions, and crowdfunding offers based on them. It explores the ways in which the practices of forming a legal entity and raising finance to support its growth relate to a broader narrative of creating…
Introduction
Rethinking the green state beyond the Global North
This study focuses on the role of the South African state in environmental governance, with particular reference to transformations in political authority and processes of capital accumulation. Our approach underscores the importance of analyzing state environmental efforts both empirically and normatively, in order to understand the underlying drivers of state policies that perpetuate or ameliorate environmental degradation. The tension between …
Regulation and Administration
Radical Transactionalism
This article proposes an original theoretical approach to the analysis of community‐level action for sustainability, focusing on its troubled relationship to the sharing economy. Through a conversation between scholarship on legal consciousness and diverse economies, it shows how struggles over transactional legality are a neglected site of activism for sustainability. Recognizing the diversity of economic life and forms of law illuminates what w…
Water rights between social activism and social enterprise
Water rights involve an amalgam of property rights and socio-economic rights that possess an inescapable regulatory dimension. The resulting uneasy mix of public responsibilities and private property regimes means that the details of the legal entity structure involved are central to the viability and effectiveness of implementing water rights on the ground. Small-scale social enterprise structures offer a fascinating site for exploring the tensi…
Limiting Resources
I Fought the Law and the Law Won? Legal Consciousness and the Critical Imagination
The study of legal consciousness within socio-legal studies entails a focus on the ordinary, quotidian and, crucially, almost invisible life of law in society. To study legal consciousness is to study the taken-for-granted and not-immediately-noticeable: the background assumptions about legality which structure and inform everyday thoughts and actions. This article examines legal consciousness through the lens of the cultural theory of Mary Dougl…
Understanding the rise of the regulatory state of the South
This paper, and the special issue it introduces, explores whether, and how, the rise of the regulatory state of the South, and its implications for processes of governance, are distinct from cases in the North. With the exception of a small but growing body of work on Latin America, most work on the regulatory state deals with the US or Europe, or takes a relatively undifferentiated “legal transplant” approach to the developing world. We use the …
Water on Tap
In the 1990s and mid-2000s, turbulent political and social protests surrounded the issue of private sector involvement in providing urban water services in both the developed and developing world. Water on Tap explores examples of such conflicts in six national settings (France, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, South Africa and New Zealand), focusing on a central question: how were rights and regulation mobilized to address the demands of redistributio…
Turning Off the Tap
This article explores the development of a cross-border dimension to the delivery of urban water services as an arena for the social construction of global administrative law. When companies from one country deliver water services in another country under decades-long concession contracts, the ensuing political and legal struggle engages one of the central strands of administrative law traditionally understood: the question of participation in de…
The Economization of Politics
Recent developments in regulatory reform strategies increasingly focus on controlling the process of regulation itself, rather than regulating social and individual action directly. This article explores the reflexive systematization of regulatory policy by focusing on institutions and processes that embed regulatory review mechanisms deploying economic rationality into the every-day routines of governmental policy-making. It explores both the so…
Oh, Reason Not the Need
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Oh, Reason Not the Need
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Understanding the rise of the regulatory state of the South
This paper, and the special issue it introduces, explores whether, and how, the rise of the regulatory state of the South, and its implications for processes of governance, are distinct from cases in the North. With the exception of a small but growing body of work on Latin America, most work on the regulatory state deals with the US or Europe, or takes a relatively undifferentiated “legal transplant” approach to the developing world. We use the …
The Economization of Politics
Recent developments in regulatory reform strategies increasingly focus on controlling the process of regulation itself, rather than regulating social and individual action directly. This article explores the reflexive systematization of regulatory policy by focusing on institutions and processes that embed regulatory review mechanisms deploying economic rationality into the every-day routines of governmental policy-making. It explores both the so…
Prefigurative legality
This paper argues that prefigurative legality plays an important role in crafting municipalist strategy. We explore the experience of the City of Sydney in relation to new municipalism, focusing on its trajectory as a ‘boundary case’ that generates incrementally accrued transformative potential under conditions of muted political partisanship. The paper argues that at least in a boundary case such as this, legality can be a key and underappreciat…
Prefigurative Legality
Since the early 2000s, many of the left groups that spurred the alt-globalization movement have embraced directly democratic organizing and the creation of ethical relationships and subjectivities far more than they have pursued projects to reform legal and political institutions. These practices are often described as prefigurative because people are working to build alternative possible futures in the here-and-now outside of dominant statist an…
Turning Off the Tap
This article explores the development of a cross-border dimension to the delivery of urban water services as an arena for the social construction of global administrative law. When companies from one country deliver water services in another country under decades-long concession contracts, the ensuing political and legal struggle engages one of the central strands of administrative law traditionally understood: the question of participation in de…
Rethinking the green state beyond the Global North
This study focuses on the role of the South African state in environmental governance, with particular reference to transformations in political authority and processes of capital accumulation. Our approach underscores the importance of analyzing state environmental efforts both empirically and normatively, in order to understand the underlying drivers of state policies that perpetuate or ameliorate environmental degradation. The tension between …
Radical Transactionalism
This article proposes an original theoretical approach to the analysis of community‐level action for sustainability, focusing on its troubled relationship to the sharing economy. Through a conversation between scholarship on legal consciousness and diverse economies, it shows how struggles over transactional legality are a neglected site of activism for sustainability. Recognizing the diversity of economic life and forms of law illuminates what w…
The Sharing Economy
The sharing economy is an emergent field of scholarship. This review explores two clusters of debate regarding the sharing economy and seeks to discern the lines of a productive dialogue between them. It suggests that the current state of scholarship on law in the sharing economy is a complex and asymmetrical mix of narrative articulation and empirical exploration. The first cluster focuses on an on-demand commercial vision of the sharing economy…
What does a right to repair tell us about our relationship with technology
This article examines the recommendations of the recent Productivity Commission Inquiry regarding the right to repair through the lens of social issues surrounding the right to repair movement. It describes the right to repair movement in Australia and globally and examines which repair practices are considered important by the Commission, and the limitations of the Commission’s preoccupation with existing repair markets. It also discusses changi…
Telling Stories Beautifully
This article explores the expressive and constitutive dimensions of hybrid legal forms emerging as vehicles for grass‐roots innovations that seek to forge renewed economic trajectories. Drawing on a relational perspective, it analyses company constitutions, and crowdfunding offers based on them. It explores the ways in which the practices of forming a legal entity and raising finance to support its growth relate to a broader narrative of creating…
Introduction
Oh, Reason Not the Need
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Oh, Reason Not the Need
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Economization of Politics
Recent developments in regulatory reform strategies increasingly focus on controlling the process of regulation itself, rather than regulating social and individual action directly. This article explores the reflexive systematization of regulatory policy by focusing on institutions and processes that embed regulatory review mechanisms deploying economic rationality into the every-day routines of governmental policy-making. It explores both the so…
Turning Off the Tap
This article explores the development of a cross-border dimension to the delivery of urban water services as an arena for the social construction of global administrative law. When companies from one country deliver water services in another country under decades-long concession contracts, the ensuing political and legal struggle engages one of the central strands of administrative law traditionally understood: the question of participation in de…
Water on Tap
In the 1990s and mid-2000s, turbulent political and social protests surrounded the issue of private sector involvement in providing urban water services in both the developed and developing world. Water on Tap explores examples of such conflicts in six national settings (France, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, South Africa and New Zealand), focusing on a central question: how were rights and regulation mobilized to address the demands of redistributio…
Understanding the rise of the regulatory state of the South
This paper, and the special issue it introduces, explores whether, and how, the rise of the regulatory state of the South, and its implications for processes of governance, are distinct from cases in the North. With the exception of a small but growing body of work on Latin America, most work on the regulatory state deals with the US or Europe, or takes a relatively undifferentiated “legal transplant” approach to the developing world. We use the …
I Fought the Law and the Law Won? Legal Consciousness and the Critical Imagination
The study of legal consciousness within socio-legal studies entails a focus on the ordinary, quotidian and, crucially, almost invisible life of law in society. To study legal consciousness is to study the taken-for-granted and not-immediately-noticeable: the background assumptions about legality which structure and inform everyday thoughts and actions. This article examines legal consciousness through the lens of the cultural theory of Mary Dougl…
Water rights between social activism and social enterprise
Water rights involve an amalgam of property rights and socio-economic rights that possess an inescapable regulatory dimension. The resulting uneasy mix of public responsibilities and private property regimes means that the details of the legal entity structure involved are central to the viability and effectiveness of implementing water rights on the ground. Small-scale social enterprise structures offer a fascinating site for exploring the tensi…
Limiting Resources
Regulation and Administration
Radical Transactionalism
This article proposes an original theoretical approach to the analysis of community‐level action for sustainability, focusing on its troubled relationship to the sharing economy. Through a conversation between scholarship on legal consciousness and diverse economies, it shows how struggles over transactional legality are a neglected site of activism for sustainability. Recognizing the diversity of economic life and forms of law illuminates what w…
Rethinking the green state beyond the Global North
This study focuses on the role of the South African state in environmental governance, with particular reference to transformations in political authority and processes of capital accumulation. Our approach underscores the importance of analyzing state environmental efforts both empirically and normatively, in order to understand the underlying drivers of state policies that perpetuate or ameliorate environmental degradation. The tension between …
The Sharing Economy
The sharing economy is an emergent field of scholarship. This review explores two clusters of debate regarding the sharing economy and seeks to discern the lines of a productive dialogue between them. It suggests that the current state of scholarship on law in the sharing economy is a complex and asymmetrical mix of narrative articulation and empirical exploration. The first cluster focuses on an on-demand commercial vision of the sharing economy…
Telling Stories Beautifully
This article explores the expressive and constitutive dimensions of hybrid legal forms emerging as vehicles for grass‐roots innovations that seek to forge renewed economic trajectories. Drawing on a relational perspective, it analyses company constitutions, and crowdfunding offers based on them. It explores the ways in which the practices of forming a legal entity and raising finance to support its growth relate to a broader narrative of creating…
Introduction
Law in context as terrestrial politics
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Contested Common Space, Regulation and Inclusion at the Coogee Women’s Pool
This article concerns two disputes that occurred between 2020–22 at the Coogee Women’s Pool, a public ocean pool in Sydney reserved for use only by women. One contest concerned the governance of the pool by its Management Committee related to differing conceptions of the ethos of the pool and the nature of its custodianship. The other concerned the exclusion of trans women from the pool over the definition of ‘women’ allowed access to the facilit…
Addressing the global social challenges of our time
Place-based pedagogies of hope
The need to engage students in thinking about the politics of law, especially in a time of escalating climate and other crises, is increasingly urgent. In this paper, we discuss a series of place-based teaching strategies designed to foster critical legal thinking, but also hope and a sense of agency. Inspired by a range of scholars – Bruno Latour, Doreen Massey, Henry Giroux and J.K. Gibson-Graham – we use context in an effort to cultivate what …
What does a right to repair tell us about our relationship with technology
This article examines the recommendations of the recent Productivity Commission Inquiry regarding the right to repair through the lens of social issues surrounding the right to repair movement. It describes the right to repair movement in Australia and globally and examines which repair practices are considered important by the Commission, and the limitations of the Commission’s preoccupation with existing repair markets. It also discusses changi…
Reflections on the first year of Global Social Challenges Journal and looking to the future
Prefigurative Legality
Since the early 2000s, many of the left groups that spurred the alt-globalization movement have embraced directly democratic organizing and the creation of ethical relationships and subjectivities far more than they have pursued projects to reform legal and political institutions. These practices are often described as prefigurative because people are working to build alternative possible futures in the here-and-now outside of dominant statist an…
Prefigurative legality
This paper argues that prefigurative legality plays an important role in crafting municipalist strategy. We explore the experience of the City of Sydney in relation to new municipalism, focusing on its trajectory as a ‘boundary case’ that generates incrementally accrued transformative potential under conditions of muted political partisanship. The paper argues that at least in a boundary case such as this, legality can be a key and underappreciat…
Institutional design in commons-based sharing economies
This paper presents an analytical mapping of institutional design possibilities for alternative ways for digital platforms to institutionalise property and corporate form. It builds on the institutional imagination catalysed by three vignettes of experimental sharing economy initiatives presented towards the start of the paper, each of which highlights the imbrication and interdependence between economic and social dimensions of the sharing econo…
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