Injury and Injustice (eBook, ePUB)

The Cultural Politics of Harm and Redress
Redaktion: Bloom, Anne

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book addresses some of the most difficult and important debates over injury and law now taking place in societies around the world. The essays tackle the inescapable experience of injury and its implications for social inequality in different cultural settings. Topics include the tension between physical and reputational injuries, the construction of human injuries versus injuries to non-human life, virtual injuries, the normalization and infliction of injuries on vulnerable victims, the question of reparations for slavery, and the paradoxical degradation of victims through legal actions meant to compensate them for their disabilities. Authors include social theorists, social scientists and legal scholars, and the subject matter extends to the Middle East and Asia, as well as North America.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108349802
• Artikelnr.: 53398005

Inhaltsangabe

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.