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Focus: Articulating the Body Politic: Intersections in Law, Culture, and Society

The focus delivers a critical assessment of the manifold intersections between political power and the body politic within legal and societal contexts. Indeed, such intersections take different forms and serve different functions within different contexts. To this extent, the above-mentioned intersections contribute in forging the same scenario within which law, culture, and society interact. However, societal contexts have dramatically changed. As Alessandra Cordiano upholds in “The Sex of the Body Politic: Questioning the Legal Constraints on Genderism between Law and Literature,” gender identity is a recent conquest in Western legal culture. The contemporary categories on how the body politic is forged reveal a more relaxed approach towards homosexuality, transsexuality, intersexuality and even transvestism, thus overturning the traditional social order that is grounded on a binary conception of the law. Hence, “articulation” refers to how political power and body politic interrelate and therefore forge each other. As Sidia Fiorato has acutely pointed out, “the metaphor of the body politic [through its] multifarious articulations” holds such assumption: the concept of body politic is indeed “inscribed at all levels of society [...] and the political order [is] divided into different parts and functions that correspond to the members or organs of the community.” But, articulation may also be disruptive, and trigger instead a dis-articulation of the body politic. This is the outcome of sectionalism, which is usually due to the “confinement of interest to a narrow sphere, narrowness of outlook, undue accentuation of minor local, political, or social distinctions.”