Popular Culture and Legal Pluralism: Narrative as Law

ISBN-13: 9780367596392 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 218 str.

Wendy A. Adams

Opis

This book argues for an understanding of popular culture and law as mutually constitutive discourses. Drawing upon theories of critical legal pluralism, psychological and literary theories of narrative, and interdisciplinary theories of post-humanism, it is held that works of critical dystopia, particularly those in the genre of bio-punk, and th

Spis treści

1. Introduction

2. A framework for Re-imagining Law

3. Legal Pluralism as Capacity and Result

4. Obligation and Identity

5. Resistance has Rules

6. Conclusion

References

Index

O autorze

Wendy A Adams is Associate Professor of Law, McGill University, Canada. Her research interests are in the areas of legal pluralism, law and popular culture, commodification, and human-animal studies. She has published on these and related topics.