Cultural Studies and the 'Juridical Turn'
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From finance, housing, welfare, and immigration policies to copyright, gay marriage and the criminal justice system, few cultural forces so fundamentally determine our everyday lives as the law. This collection not only charts the law as it exerts its influence on our society and culture, but it also seeks to define this important field of study and demonstrate the substantial role law plays in the production of our social and cultural worlds. It examines the mechanisms through which the law functions, how this has changed, especially in U.S. culture, since the 1970s, and what this means for…mehr

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From finance, housing, welfare, and immigration policies to copyright, gay marriage and the criminal justice system, few cultural forces so fundamentally determine our everyday lives as the law. This collection not only charts the law as it exerts its influence on our society and culture, but it also seeks to define this important field of study and demonstrate the substantial role law plays in the production of our social and cultural worlds. It examines the mechanisms through which the law functions, how this has changed, especially in U.S. culture, since the 1970s, and what this means for Cultural Studies theory and practice. This book was published as a special issue of Cultural Studies.
Autorenporträt
Jaafar Aksikas is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at Columbia College, Chicago, IL, USA. He is also President of the Cultural Studies Association. His books include Arab Modernities (2009) and The Sirah of Antar: An Interpretation of Arab and Islamic History (2002). He has taught, researched, and published widely in the fields of Cultural Studies, media and culture industry studies, critical legal and policy studies, American Studies, and Middle Eastern studies. Sean Johnson Andrews is Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies and the Humanities at Columbia College, Chicago, IL, USA. He teaches courses on Cultural Studies methods and methodologies, media studies, cyberculture, and the digital humanities.