Intersections of Law and Culture
An inter-disciplinary, international collection that examines the mutual influences between law and culture through a series of sophisticated case studies showing how cultural phenomena are brought under legal regulation, how laws are resisted through cultural practices, and how those practices shap...
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2012.
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| Series: | Palgrave Macmillan Socio-Legal Studies
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: P.Gisler, S.S.Borella & C.Wiedmer
- PART I: THE CODIFICATION OF CULTURE
- Law as Gendered Narratives: Criminal Court Decisions against Left Wing Terrorists; D.Grisard
- Every Picture Speaks a Thousand Words: Visualizing Judicial Authority in the Press; L.Moran
- I Hereby Find you Guilty of Cheating: How Television Judges Give Personal Problems Legal Dimensions; A.Krakus
- Female Genital Cutting, Migration and the Art of Legal Boundary Maintenance; C.Wiedmer
- PART II: PERFORMING RESISTANCE
- The Actant Doesn't Speak: Configuring a Law for Research on Humans; P.Gisler
- Giù le mani dalla mia storia: Performing Regional Identity Politics in Ticino; S.S.Borella
- 'That's Life:' Actualizing the Non Lieu as Empty Space; F.Ferrari
- PART III: SHIFTING EPISTEMOLOGIES
- 'On the Study Methods of our Time:' Methodologies of Law and Literature in the Context of Interdisciplinary Studies; J.Gaakeer
- The Reader as Thought Experiment: Character, Moral Luck and the Contingent; M.Williams
- Between the Rational and the Marvellous: Edgar Allan Poe and the Counter-Enlightenment Origins of the Modern Detective Story; N.Sargent
- Law's Life on the Screen; R.Sherwin.
