Garland, F and Travis, M orcid.org/0000-0001-6245-7354 (2020) Temporal Bodies: Emergencies, Emergence, and Intersex Embodiment. In: Dietz, C, Travis, M and Thomson, M, (eds.) Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies. Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies . Palgrave Macmillan , Cham, Swizerland , pp. 119-147. ISBN 978-3-030-42199-1
Abstract
This chapter demonstrates the ways in which temporalities are institutionally constructed. To do so, the chapter engages with intersex embodiment to show how the institutions of healthcare, psychosocial care, and law offer different temporal constructions of the same body alternating between emergency and emergence. Whereas intersex embodiment has often been understood in terms of ‘emergency’ necessitating ‘one-off’ interventions in order to ‘fix’ the child, this chapter attempts to reorient care towards ‘emergence’ focusing on the needs of the intersex person across the whole of the life course. In doing so, this chapter encourages clinical and juridical decision makers to engage with deferability as a crucial element of best interests assessments. Deferability, as this chapter demonstrates, offers clear guidelines to practitioners and policy makers in the determination of emergencies.
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Item Type: | Book Section |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 The Author(s). This is an author produced version of a book chapter published in A Jurisprudence of the Body. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Emergency; Temporality; Time; Embodiment; Emergence; Intersex |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Law (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 27 Jul 2020 13:21 |
Last Modified: | 02 Nov 2022 09:52 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan |
Series Name: | Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/978-3-030-42200-4_6 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:163288 |