Margins of The Law: Epiphenomena of Biopolitical Violence

This article’s aim is offer a theoretical frame for rethinking forms of state violence implicit in an interrelated set of institutional, administrative and judicial practices dealing with the politics of gender, sexuality and relational diversity. Drawing on the case of post-“equal marriage” Spain, it shows the extent to which the introduction of the concept of “public order“ in modern judicial systems has played, and still does, a major role in the biopolitical administration of populations.