The communicative space: Painting the evidence and plausibility in asylum court hearings
By: Tužinská, Helena
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BookPublisher: Social and Legal Studies Description: 34(6), Dec, 2025: p.832-855.Subject(s): Asylum, Court, Communication, Justice, Plausibility, Refugee
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Social and Legal StudiesSummary: This article explores the state's control not only at national borders but also at the boundaries of language, culture-specific terms and legal jargon, by scrutinising how court participants are both listened to and interpreted in legal proceedings. Based on participant observation in Slovakian asylum court hearings and pre- and post-trial ethnographic interviews with asylum applicants, attorneys, interpreters and state officials, this study examines: (1) how ‘communicative space’ is established and negotiated in asylum court hearings; (2) how this space relates to the plausibility during evidence-making and (3) how Diego Velázquez's painting Las Meninas offers explanatory power for understanding dynamics in legal settings. By drawing on the work of ethnographers, philosophers, socio-legal and art theorists, this article provides new insights into the role of communicative space in plausibility assessments.- Reproduced
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/09646639241307604
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This article explores the state's control not only at national borders but also at the boundaries of language, culture-specific terms and legal jargon, by scrutinising how court participants are both listened to and interpreted in legal proceedings. Based on participant observation in Slovakian asylum court hearings and pre- and post-trial ethnographic interviews with asylum applicants, attorneys, interpreters and state officials, this study examines: (1) how ‘communicative space’ is established and negotiated in asylum court hearings; (2) how this space relates to the plausibility during evidence-making and (3) how Diego Velázquez's painting Las Meninas offers explanatory power for understanding dynamics in legal settings. By drawing on the work of ethnographers, philosophers, socio-legal and art theorists, this article provides new insights into the role of communicative space in plausibility assessments.- Reproduced
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/09646639241307604
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