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Title: 
“We’re not there yet” but it’s not “pie-in-the-sky”: Legal Consciousness, Decertification and the Equality Sector in England and Wales
Authors: 
Emerton, Robyn
Issue Date: 
2023
Publisher: 
Springer
Abstract: 
Drawing on 38 in-depth, qualitative interviews, this article explores how people working in the equality sector in England and Wales view and use the current law around sex and gender, and how they imagine law’s future, particularly potential decertification, where the state would withdraw from certifying and regulating a person’s sex/gender. Whilst situated in the bureaucratic strand of the literature, the paper also contributes to wider legal consciousness studies. This literature has generally focused on people’s relationships to law in terms of domination, alienation and game-playing. Drawing on idioms and the language of touch, the paper unpacks the way in which equality actors talked about law not as remote or alienating, but as close and familiar; not as oppressive, but as “precious” and hard-won.
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CC-BY
URI: 
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10691-022-09509-2
https://dlib.phenikaa-uni.edu.vn/handle/PNK/9301
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