Cultural Studies of Law

ISBN-13: 9781138018556 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 182 str.

Cristyn Davies; Sara L. Knox

Opis

This edited collection is a cultural analysis of how law is shaped into procedure and principle by the conditions of everyday life.

Spis treści

1. The force of meaning: cultural studies of law Sara L. Knox and Cristyn Davies  2. Memory and echo: pop cult, hi tech and the irony of tradition Desmond Manderson  3. Temporal horizons: On the possibilities of law and fatherhood in To Kill a Mockingbird Austin Sarat and Martha Merrill Umphrey  4. Entertaining torture, embodying law Peter J. Hutchings  5. Instrumental and gratuitous violence: The torture and death of Gul Rahman in the CIA Salt Pit Joseph Pugliese  6. Constructing ‘decency’: government subsidized cultural production during the culture wars Cristyn Davies  7. Weapons of sex, weapons of war: Feminisms, ethnic conflict and the rise of rape and sexual violence in public international law during the 1990s Rana Jaleel  8. Legitimating transphobia: the legal disavowal of transgender rights in prison John Nguyet Erni

O autorze

Cristyn Davies is a Research Associate at the University of Sydney, Australia. She has published widely in Cultural Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies. Sara L. Knox is an Associate Professor in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney, Australia. She is an interdisciplinary scholar researching the representation of violence in a range of cultural sites.