{"id":366,"date":"2009-04-16T10:39:26","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T14:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/its-cuthemedev1.carleton.ca\/law\/ccms\/?page_id=366"},"modified":"2025-06-23T11:43:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:43:27","slug":"hunt-alan","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/hunt-alan\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunt, Alan J."},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"research\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I am interested in the way in which self-governance interacts with formal governance such as law. I have two projects going. The first is about anxiety; the focus is on the way in which we are &#8220;governed through anxiety&#8221;, both our own anxieties and those that are induced by medical, legal and other authorities. The second is about the governance of sex and sexuality; it is concerned to understand why the issue of the \u2018age of consent&#8217; is again on the legal and political agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"teaching-interests\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Teaching interests<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Social and legal theory; governmentality; the regulation of consumption and sexuality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"selected-publications\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Selected publications<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;A Genealogy of the Genital Kiss: Oral Sex in the Twentieth Century&#8221; (with Bruce Curtis) 15:2 <em>Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality<\/em> 69-84 (2006).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8221; Police and the Regulation of Traffic: Policing as a Civilizing Process?&#8221; in Markus Dubber and Mariana Valverde (eds.) <em>The New Police Science: Police Powers in Comparative Perspective<\/em> Stanford University Press: Stanford, 2006, pp.168-84.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Getting Marx and Foucault into Bed Together!&#8221; 31:4 <em>Jnl. of Law and Society<\/em> 592-609 (December 2004).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Governing Morals: A Social History of Moral Regulation<\/em> Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>G<em>overnance of the Consuming Passions: A History of Sumptuary Regulation<\/em> Macmillan, London, 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Foucault and Law: Towards a New Sociology of Law as Governance<\/em> (with Gary Wickham) Westview Press, Boulder, Co., 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Alan J.","cu_people_last_name":"Hunt","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-366","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Professor Emeritus ","cu_people_degree":"B.A., LL.B., Ph.D. (Leeds)","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"alan.hunt@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24540,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/366\/revisions\/24540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}