Revival: Knowing Rights (2001): State Actors' Stories of Power, Identity and Morality

ISBN-13: 9781138722774 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 132 str.

Trish Oberweis; Michael Musheno

Opis

This title was first published in 2001. Breaks new ground in interpreting how identity informs the judgements of state workers, as normative orientations coincide with identities and authority. At all levels, legal ordering becomes entangled with moral orientations and the micropolitics of identification, as workers interact with one another and their clients.

Recenzje

'The major strengths of the study can be found in Oberweis and Musheno's careful and convincing methodological approach and in their persuasive argument about the complexities of identity...scholars who use qualitative research methods to understand culture, identity, and law in practice will find this study illuminating. The sections on methodology and the conceptualization of identity are detailed and insightful and offer convincing critiques of mainstream scholarship.' The Law and Politics Book Review

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction; The research setting: spaces, politics and work cultures; Studying experience and identity; Identity and morality; Power in motion: negotiating the state; Cultures of work: incorporating difference as loosely shared meanings; Conclusion: reimagining discretion as exeptionalism; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Trish Oberweis, Michael Musheno