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In our introduction to this edited book Personhood in the Age of Biolegality: Brave New Law, we chart out our intellectual premises for engaging with the notion of personhood in an age that defines itself as not only controlling biology, but also of making biology. Our problematic is to understand the shifting meaning of persons amidst these biotechnological changes and to diagnose the stakes involved. By way of outlining the structure of the book—arranged by the focus on “troubling persons,” “evidencing persons,” “governing persons,” and “the future of persons”—we introduce the thought-provoking debates that the contributions to this collective project bring to the topic of persons and law. While the emphasis lies on identifying and analyzing empirical situations, the collection also makes genuine attempts at theorizing alternative understandings of legal personhood that can contribute more meaningfully to the entangled lives and livelihoods in contemporary biosocieties.
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de Leeuw, M., van Wichelen, S. (2020). Brave New Law: Personhood in the Age of Biolegality. In: de Leeuw, M., van Wichelen, S. (eds) Personhood in the Age of Biolegality. Biolegalities. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27848-9_1
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