Document Type
Symposium
Publication Date
Winter 2014
Publication Citation
21 Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 55 (2014)
Abstract
This paper argues for understanding the regulation and standardization of objects as fundamentally about "adding" to those objects rather than reducing or simplifying them. The analysis is based on the ethnographic study of regulatory politics in Paraguayan soybean production over the course of two decades in which the Paraguayan state increased its regulatory capacity immensely. By looking at very different forms of regulatory intervention, it shows that each regulatory moment can best be understood as a "translation" which adds to the complexity of the objects in question by adding new actors and concerns to their circulation. This provides a more dynamic way of understanding the politics of regulation than more common approaches that see regulation as technical and depoliticizing.
Regulatory Translations: Expertise and Affect in Global Legal Fields, Symposium, May 16-18, 2013, Istanbul, Turkey
Recommended Citation
Hetherington, Kregg
(2014)
"Regular Soybeans: Translation and Framing in the Ontological Politics of a Coup,"
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies: Vol. 21:
Iss.
1, Article 3.
Available at:
https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/ijgls/vol21/iss1/3