Injury and Injustice: The Cultural Politics of Harm and Redress

ISBN-13: 9781108420242 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 400 str.

Anne Bloom; David Engel; Michael McCann

Opis

Explores the inescapable experience of injury and its implications for social inequality in different cultural settings.

Spis treści

Part I. Injury and the Construction of Legal Subjects: 1. The meaning of injury: a disability perspective Sagit Mor; 2. Injury in the unresponsive state: writing the vulnerable subject into neo-liberal legal culture Martha Fineman; 3. One small characteristic: conceptualizing harm to animals and legal personhood Claire Rasmussen; 4. Righteous injuries: victim's rights, discretion, and forbearance in Iranian criminal sanctioning Arzoo Osanloo; Part II. Constructing Injury, Imagining Remedies: 5. Chairs, stairs, and automobiles: the cultural construction of injuries and the failed promise of law David Engel; 6. Incommensurability and power in constructing the meaning of injury at the medical malpractice disputes Yoshitaka Wada; 7. Injury fields Løchlann Jain; 8. Good injuries Anne Bloom and Marc Galanter; 9. Privacy and the right to one's image: a cultural and legal history Samantha Barbas; Part III. Inequality and/as Injury: 10. Injury inequality Mary Anne Franks; 11. The unconscionable impossibility of reparations for slavery; or, why the master's mules will never dismantle the master's house Kimipono David Wenger; 12. Inflicting legal injuries: the place of the 'two-finger test' in Indian rape law Pratiksha Baxi; 13. The state as victim: ethical politics of injury claims and revenge in international relations Li Chen; 14. Law's imperial amnesia: transnational legal redress in East Asia Yukiko Koga; Conclusion Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller.