Cultural Studies and the 'Juridical Turn': Culture, Law, and Legitimacy in the Era of Neoliberal Capitalism

ISBN-13: 9781138502604 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 368 str.

Jaafar Aksikas; Sean Johnson Andrews

Opis

This collection charts the law as it exerts its influence on our society and culture, and seeks to define this field of study and demonstrate the substantial role law plays in the production of our social and cultural worlds. This book was published as a special issue of Cultural Studies.

Spis treści

Foreword  Preface  Introduction – Neoliberalism, Law and Culture: A Cultural Studies Intervention after ‘The Juridical Turn’  1. The Legal Trial and/in Documentary Film  2. Symbolic Economies: Money, Neoliberal Law and National Politics in Argentina  3. Overlooking/Looking over Neoliberal Immigration: Amnesty Policy in the ‘Nation of Immigrants’  4. Restoring Law and (Racial) Order to the Old Dominion: White Dreams and New Federalism in Anti-Immigrant Legislation  5. Mighty Crime Victims: Victims’ Rights and Neoliberalism in the American Conjuncture  6. ‘In Light of this Demonstration of Crisis in our Nation’: Paternity, Responsibility and Welfare  7. Shoplifters of the World Unite! Law and Culture in Financialized Times  8. Towards an Affirmative Public Domain  9. Copyright Culture and Pirate Politics  10. Rule of Law: Sharia Panic and the US Constitution in the House of Representatives  11. Culture and the Court: The Judiciary as an Arbiter of Cultural Disputes in the USA

O autorze

Jaafar Aksikas is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at Columbia College, Chicago, IL, USA. He is also President of the Cultural Studies Association. His books include Arab Modernities (2009) and The Sirah of Antar: An Interpretation of Arab and Islamic History (2002). He has taught, researched, and published widely in the fields of Cultural Studies, media and culture industry studies, critical legal and policy studies, American Studies, and Middle Eastern studies.

Sean Johnson Andrews is Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies and the Humanities at Columbia College, Chicago, IL, USA. He teaches courses on Cultural Studies methods and methodologies, media studies, cyberculture, and the digital humanities.