Ole Hammerslev
Biographic Data
| ID | 4868580 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ole Hammerslev |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ole |
| FAMILY NAME | Hammerslev |
| SIGNATURE | HAMMERSLEV O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern Denmark |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0214-2443 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Young and Experiencing Homelessness
Access to adequate housing is a fundamental right and considered decisive for the social inclusion of persons in homelessness. This article offers a socio-legal analysis of access to rights in the context of the Danish welfare state for young persons in homelessness. Statistics indicate that the number of persons aged 18 to 29 living in homelessness in Denmark almost doubled from 2009 to 2019. Drawing on analyses of law and on interviews with you…
The object(s) of legality
In this article, we argue for the relevance of studying the association between objects and people as co‐constituting legality in everyday life rather than solely focusing either on people or on ‘icons’. Indeed, we go further and argue that scholarship is in danger of producing an impoverished version of legal consciousness if it fails to look beyond the human actors, the people in society. Studying objects and associations, and their role in the…
Activating Citizenship through NGO-Led Litigation
Sanitation work in India is largely carried out by the historically marginalized Dalits, formerly known as untouchables, without proper devices or safety gear, as so-called ‘manual scavenging’. To counter manual scavenging, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have turned to courts and litigation as a form of resistance. This brought about some successes: manual scavenging was repeatedly outlawed, and several high-profile court cases have ordere…
The dynamic and iterative pre‐dispute phase
The pre‐dispute phase, during which justiciable problems may or may not emerge and transform into legal cases, is complex. Based on a meta‐ethnography of 572 articles, all of which apply or refer to Felstiner et al.’s pioneering linear framework of naming, blaming, and claiming, we analysed the many sorting mechanisms that are at play in the pre‐dispute phase. We identified the institutional, political, cultural, and legal environments of various…
Bringing Sociology of Law Back into Pierre Bourdieu's Sociology
The academic response to Bourdieu's sociology of law has mainly followed his Weberian focus on the role of legal professionals in state transformations. However, rereading Bourdieu's “The Force of Law” through the lens of its references and relating it to the sociology of law “of the moment” (i.e. that of the 1980s), it becomes clear that Bourdieu's sociology of law is more sophisticated than has generally been acknowledged. In this article, we r…
Naming, blaming, claiming
One of the most cited and influential socio-legal articles is Bill Felstiner, Rick Abel, and Austin Sarat's ‘The Emergence and Transformation of Disputes: Naming, Blaming, Claiming ...’, published in 1981. Forty years later, the notions and framework of the article are still highly relevant. We convened Felstiner, Abel, and Sarat for an interview about the background to their article, its reception, and how they view the recent refocus on institu…
Reforming the Bulgarian State of Knowledge
The transformation of the Eastern European countries from communist states to EU members was supported by massive investments in Western discourses and social science knowledge and export programmes for these from the West to the East. In the West, and specifically in the US, a market for discourses and knowledge production professionalized and intertwined with institutions that exported specific forms of policy visions of US modes of the State. …
The return of sociology in Danish socio-legal studies
This paper surveys recent trends in the development of the sociology of law in Denmark. The overall argument of the paper is that, currently, the sociology of law in Denmark is marked by a striking sociological and more specifically institutional and empirical turn. This new direction in scholarship suggests not only a renewed research focus on the institutional dimensions of law but it also – and very differently from work from the 1980s and 199…
Transcended power of the state
Pierre Bourdieu's writings on the state consist of a series of more or less coherent investigations approaching the state from different angles. His writings on the state may seem to contain internal ambiguities. On the one hand, they argue for an actor-centered approach to the state while, on the other hand, elaborating the power of the state as an institution transcending these actors. The purpose of this article is to reconstruct Bourdieu's un…
Transatlantiske kampe i Østeuropa om retlige og statslige modeller
Denne artikel undersøger den sociale genese af retlige assistanceprogrammer udviklet efter afslutningen på den Kolde Krig i USA og EU. Artiklen illustrerer, hvordan de retlige assistanceprogrammer i USA i høj grad blev udviklet på amerikanske erhvervsadvokaters private initiativ uden for staten, mens EU’s programmer blev skabt inden for det bureaukratiske felt. Forskellen i programmernes baggrund reflekteres på den måde de fungerer. De amerikansk…
Naming, blaming, claiming
One of the most cited and influential socio-legal articles is Bill Felstiner, Rick Abel, and Austin Sarat's ‘The Emergence and Transformation of Disputes: Naming, Blaming, Claiming ...’, published in 1981. Forty years later, the notions and framework of the article are still highly relevant. We convened Felstiner, Abel, and Sarat for an interview about the background to their article, its reception, and how they view the recent refocus on institu…
The return of sociology in Danish socio-legal studies
This paper surveys recent trends in the development of the sociology of law in Denmark. The overall argument of the paper is that, currently, the sociology of law in Denmark is marked by a striking sociological and more specifically institutional and empirical turn. This new direction in scholarship suggests not only a renewed research focus on the institutional dimensions of law but it also – and very differently from work from the 1980s and 199…
Transcended power of the state
Pierre Bourdieu's writings on the state consist of a series of more or less coherent investigations approaching the state from different angles. His writings on the state may seem to contain internal ambiguities. On the one hand, they argue for an actor-centered approach to the state while, on the other hand, elaborating the power of the state as an institution transcending these actors. The purpose of this article is to reconstruct Bourdieu's un…
Reforming the Bulgarian State of Knowledge
The transformation of the Eastern European countries from communist states to EU members was supported by massive investments in Western discourses and social science knowledge and export programmes for these from the West to the East. In the West, and specifically in the US, a market for discourses and knowledge production professionalized and intertwined with institutions that exported specific forms of policy visions of US modes of the State. …
The object(s) of legality
In this article, we argue for the relevance of studying the association between objects and people as co‐constituting legality in everyday life rather than solely focusing either on people or on ‘icons’. Indeed, we go further and argue that scholarship is in danger of producing an impoverished version of legal consciousness if it fails to look beyond the human actors, the people in society. Studying objects and associations, and their role in the…
Activating Citizenship through NGO-Led Litigation
Sanitation work in India is largely carried out by the historically marginalized Dalits, formerly known as untouchables, without proper devices or safety gear, as so-called ‘manual scavenging’. To counter manual scavenging, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have turned to courts and litigation as a form of resistance. This brought about some successes: manual scavenging was repeatedly outlawed, and several high-profile court cases have ordere…
Bringing Sociology of Law Back into Pierre Bourdieu's Sociology
The academic response to Bourdieu's sociology of law has mainly followed his Weberian focus on the role of legal professionals in state transformations. However, rereading Bourdieu's “The Force of Law” through the lens of its references and relating it to the sociology of law “of the moment” (i.e. that of the 1980s), it becomes clear that Bourdieu's sociology of law is more sophisticated than has generally been acknowledged. In this article, we r…
Transatlantiske kampe i Østeuropa om retlige og statslige modeller
Denne artikel undersøger den sociale genese af retlige assistanceprogrammer udviklet efter afslutningen på den Kolde Krig i USA og EU. Artiklen illustrerer, hvordan de retlige assistanceprogrammer i USA i høj grad blev udviklet på amerikanske erhvervsadvokaters private initiativ uden for staten, mens EU’s programmer blev skabt inden for det bureaukratiske felt. Forskellen i programmernes baggrund reflekteres på den måde de fungerer. De amerikansk…
Transcended power of the state
Pierre Bourdieu's writings on the state consist of a series of more or less coherent investigations approaching the state from different angles. His writings on the state may seem to contain internal ambiguities. On the one hand, they argue for an actor-centered approach to the state while, on the other hand, elaborating the power of the state as an institution transcending these actors. The purpose of this article is to reconstruct Bourdieu's un…
The return of sociology in Danish socio-legal studies
This paper surveys recent trends in the development of the sociology of law in Denmark. The overall argument of the paper is that, currently, the sociology of law in Denmark is marked by a striking sociological and more specifically institutional and empirical turn. This new direction in scholarship suggests not only a renewed research focus on the institutional dimensions of law but it also – and very differently from work from the 1980s and 199…
Reforming the Bulgarian State of Knowledge
The transformation of the Eastern European countries from communist states to EU members was supported by massive investments in Western discourses and social science knowledge and export programmes for these from the West to the East. In the West, and specifically in the US, a market for discourses and knowledge production professionalized and intertwined with institutions that exported specific forms of policy visions of US modes of the State. …
Naming, blaming, claiming
One of the most cited and influential socio-legal articles is Bill Felstiner, Rick Abel, and Austin Sarat's ‘The Emergence and Transformation of Disputes: Naming, Blaming, Claiming ...’, published in 1981. Forty years later, the notions and framework of the article are still highly relevant. We convened Felstiner, Abel, and Sarat for an interview about the background to their article, its reception, and how they view the recent refocus on institu…
Bringing Sociology of Law Back into Pierre Bourdieu's Sociology
The academic response to Bourdieu's sociology of law has mainly followed his Weberian focus on the role of legal professionals in state transformations. However, rereading Bourdieu's “The Force of Law” through the lens of its references and relating it to the sociology of law “of the moment” (i.e. that of the 1980s), it becomes clear that Bourdieu's sociology of law is more sophisticated than has generally been acknowledged. In this article, we r…
Activating Citizenship through NGO-Led Litigation
Sanitation work in India is largely carried out by the historically marginalized Dalits, formerly known as untouchables, without proper devices or safety gear, as so-called ‘manual scavenging’. To counter manual scavenging, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have turned to courts and litigation as a form of resistance. This brought about some successes: manual scavenging was repeatedly outlawed, and several high-profile court cases have ordere…
The dynamic and iterative pre‐dispute phase
The pre‐dispute phase, during which justiciable problems may or may not emerge and transform into legal cases, is complex. Based on a meta‐ethnography of 572 articles, all of which apply or refer to Felstiner et al.’s pioneering linear framework of naming, blaming, and claiming, we analysed the many sorting mechanisms that are at play in the pre‐dispute phase. We identified the institutional, political, cultural, and legal environments of various…
Young and Experiencing Homelessness
Access to adequate housing is a fundamental right and considered decisive for the social inclusion of persons in homelessness. This article offers a socio-legal analysis of access to rights in the context of the Danish welfare state for young persons in homelessness. Statistics indicate that the number of persons aged 18 to 29 living in homelessness in Denmark almost doubled from 2009 to 2019. Drawing on analyses of law and on interviews with you…
The object(s) of legality
In this article, we argue for the relevance of studying the association between objects and people as co‐constituting legality in everyday life rather than solely focusing either on people or on ‘icons’. Indeed, we go further and argue that scholarship is in danger of producing an impoverished version of legal consciousness if it fails to look beyond the human actors, the people in society. Studying objects and associations, and their role in the…
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