Tessaro, Lara (2023) Registering Cosmetics? The Constitution of Legal Form and Injurious Substance in Canada (1945–1946). Social & Legal Studies, 32 (5). pp. 666-689. ISSN 0964-6639. E-ISSN 1461-7390. (doi:10.1177/09646639231173051) (KAR id:101451)
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Abstract
In midcentury Canada, legislative drafters, government lawyers, food and drug officials, and ministers grappled with cosmetics. Faced with constitutional concerns about cosmetic licensing, these actors drafted legislative amendments that would instead require cosmetics to be registered. In contrast to people or land, the registration of products, substances, or things has received little attention in sociolegal scholarship. Building on work investigating law's temporalities and materiality, this account traces how in-formed by the constitutional doctrine that apprehended substances through the legal form of prohibition, cosmetics were rendered in draft legislation as constituted of ingredients that may cause injury. Injury, in this account, is a material-temporal regime. Yet cosmetic injury was neither static nor singular, as it was catalysed differently by distinctive regulatory devices. This is shown by last-minute changes to the bill which retooled cosmetic registration, from an information extraction device for anticipating future harms, into a recording device for capturing latent harms.
Item Type: | Article |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.1177/09646639231173051 |
Additional information: | For the purpose of open access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission. |
Uncontrolled keywords: | Law, General Social Sciences, Sociology and Political Science |
Subjects: | K Law |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > Kent Law School |
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Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (https://ror.org/04j5jqy92)
University of Kent (https://ror.org/00xkeyj56) |
SWORD Depositor: | JISC Publications Router |
Depositing User: | JISC Publications Router |
Date Deposited: | 09 Jun 2023 14:39 UTC |
Last Modified: | 05 Nov 2024 13:07 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/101451 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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