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Envisioning Legality

Author : Timothy Peters,Karen Crawley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317301592

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Envisioning Legality: Law, Culture and Representation is a path-breaking collection of some of the world’s leading cultural legal scholars addressing issues of law, representation and the image. Law is constituted in and through the representations that hold us in their thrall, and this book focuses on the ways in which cultural legal representations not only reflect or contribute to an understanding of law, but constitute the very fabric of legality itself. As such, each of these ‘readings’ of cultural texts takes seriously the cultural as a mode of envisioning, constituting and critiquing the law. And the theoretically sophisticated approaches utilised here encompass more than simply an engagement with ‘harmless entertainment’. Rather they enact and undertake specific political and critical engagements with timely issues, such as: the redressing of past wrongs, recognising and combatting structural injustices, and orienting our political communities in relation to uncertain futures. Envisioning Legality thereby presents a cultural legal studies that provides the means for engaging in robust, sustained and in-depth encounters with the nature and role of law in a global, mediated world.

Imagining Legality

Author : Austin Sarat
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780817356781

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Imagining Legality: Where Law Meets Popular Culture is collection of essays on the relationship between law and popular culture that posits, in addition to the concepts of law in the books and law in action, a third concept of law in the image—that is, of law as it is perceived by the public through the lens of public media. Imagining Legality argues that images of law suggested by television and film are as numerous as they are various, and that they give rise to a potent and pervasive imaginative life of the law. The media’s projections of the legal system remind us not only of the way law lives in our imagination but also of the contingencies of our own legal and social arrangements. Contributors to Imagining Legality are less interested in the accuracy of the portrayals of law in film and television than in exploring the conditions of law’s representation, circulation, and consumption in those media. In the same way that legal scholars have taken on the disciplinary perspectives of history, economics, sociology, anthropology, and psychology in relation to the law, these writers bring historical, sociological, and cultural analysis, as well as legal theory, to aid in the understanding of law and popular culture.

Living in Technical Legality

Author : Kieran Tranter
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474420907

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First comparative study to address the rediscovery of baroque aesthetic in modernism.

Law, Video Games, Virtual Realities

Author : Dale Mitchell,Ashley Pearson,Timothy D. Peters
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000987836

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Law, Video Games, Virtual Realities by Dale Mitchell,Ashley Pearson,Timothy D. Peters Pdf

This edited volume explores the intersection between the coded realm of the video game and the equally codified space of law through an insightful collection of critical readings. Law is the ultimate multiplayer role-playing game. Involving a process of world-creation, law presents and codifies the parameters of licit and permitted behaviour, requiring individuals to engage their roles as a legal subject – the player-avatar of law – in order to be recognised, perform legal actions, activate rights or fulfil legal duties. Although traditional forms of law (copyright, property, privacy, freedom of expression) externally regulate the permissible content, form, dissemination, rights and behaviours of game designers, publishers, and players, this collection examines how players simulate, relate, and engage with environments and experiences shaped by legality in the realm of video game space. Featuring critical readings of video games as a means of understanding law and justice, this book contributes to the developing field of cultural legal studies, but will also be of interest to other legal theorists, socio-legal scholars, and games theorists.

The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Legal Studies

Author : Karen Crawley,Thomas Giddens,Timothy D Peters
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781040013281

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The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Legal Studies by Karen Crawley,Thomas Giddens,Timothy D Peters Pdf

This handbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the cutting-edge field of cultural legal studies. Cultural legal studies is at the forefront of the legal discipline, questioning not only doctrine or social context, but how the concerns of legality are distributed and encountered through a range of material forms. Growing out of the interdisciplinary turn in critical legal studies and jurisprudence that took place in the latter quarter of the 20th century, cultural legal studies exists at the intersection of a range of traditional disciplinary areas: legal studies, cultural studies, literary studies, jurisprudence, media studies, critical theory, history, and philosophy. It is an area of study that is characterised by an expanded or open-ended conception of what ‘counts’ as a legal source, and that is concerned with questions of authority, legitimacy, and interpretation across a wide range of cultural artefacts. Including a mixture of established and new authors in the area, this handbook brings together a complex set of perspectives that are representative of the current field, but which also address its methods, assumptions, limitations, and possible futures. Establishing the significance of the cultural for understanding law, as well as its importance as a potential site for justice, community, and sociality in the world today, this handbook is a key reference point both for those working in the cultural legal context – in legal theory, law and literature, law and film/television, law and aesthetics, cultural studies, and the humanities generally – as well as others interested in the interactions between authority, culture, and meaning.

The Many Lives of Transnational Law

Author : Peer Zumbansen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108490269

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Sixty years after Jessup's Transnational Law Lectures, this collection traces the field's development and significance to the present day.

Law and Humanities

Author : Russell Sandberg,Daniel Newman
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781839990373

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This edited collection provides the first accessible introduction to Law and Humanities. Each chapter explores the nature, development and possible further trajectory of a disciplinary ‘law and’ field. Each chapter is written by an expert in the respective field and addresses how the two disciplines of law and the other respective field operate. This edited work, therefore, fulfils a real and pressing need to provide an accessible, introductory but critical guide to law and humanities as a whole by exploring how each disciplinary ‘law and’ field has developed, contributes to further scrutinizing the content and role of law, and how it can contribute and be enriched by being understood within the law and humanities tradition as a whole.

Hashtag Jurisprudence

Author : Sharp, Cassandra
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781800372597

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This thoroughly engaging book uses empirical analysis to illustrate that the response of individuals to global terror events, via social media, provokes an opportunity to interpret the ways in which individuals view their place in the world and their relation to law and justice. It is through analysing these responses that Cassandra Sharp demonstrates that a ‘hashtag jurisprudence’ can be constructed.

Biopolitics and Resistance in Legal Education

Author : Thomas Giddens,Luca Siliquini-Cinelli
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000876567

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Biopolitics and Resistance in Legal Education by Thomas Giddens,Luca Siliquini-Cinelli Pdf

Taking up the study of legal education in distinctly biopolitical terms, this book provides a critical and political analysis of resistance in the law school. Legal education concerns the complex pathways by which an individual becomes a lawyer, making the journey from lay-person to expert, from student to practitioner. To pose the idea of a biopolitics of legal education is not only to recognise the tensions surrounding this journey but also to recognise that legal education is a key site in which the subject engages, and is engaged by, a particular structure—and here the particular structure of the law school. This book explores the resistance to that structure, including: different ways in which law’s pedagogic structures might be incomplete, or are being fought against; the use of less conventional elements of cultural discourse to resist the abstraction of the lawyer in students’ subject formation; the centralisation of queer and feminist discourses to disrupt the hierarchies of the legal curriculum; the use of digital technologies; the place of embodiment in legal education settings; and the impacts of posthuman knowledges and contexts on legal learning. Assembling original, field-defining essays by both leading international scholars and emerging researchers, this book constitutes an indispensable resource in legal education research and scholarship that will appeal to legal academics everywhere.

Law, Lawyers and Justice

Author : Kim D Weinert,Karen Crawley,Kieran Tranter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000048032

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Law, Lawyers and Justice by Kim D Weinert,Karen Crawley,Kieran Tranter Pdf

This book engages with the place of law and legality within Australia’s distinctive contribution to global televisual culture. Australian popular culture has created a lasting legacy – for good or bad – of representations of law, lawyers and justice ‘down under’. Within films and television of striking landscapes, peopled with heroes, antiheroes, survivors and jokers, there is a fixation on law, conflicts between legal orders, brutal violence and survival. Deeply compromised by the ongoing violence against the lives and laws of First Nation Australians, Australian film and television has sharply illuminated what it means to live with a ‘rule of law’ that rules with a legacy, and a reality, of deep injustice. This book is the first to bring together scholars to reflect on, and critically engage with, the representations and global implications of law, lawyers and justice captured through the lenses of Australian film, television and social media. Exploring how distinctively Australian lenses capture uniquely Australian images and narratives, the book nevertheless engages these in order to provide broader insights into the contemporary translations and transmogrifications of law and justice.

Ways of Remembering

Author : Oishik Sircar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316512814

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Ways of Remembering by Oishik Sircar Pdf

Investigation into how a shared narrative of law and cinema produces ways of collectively remembering mass violence in postcolonial India.

Critical Directions in Comics Studies

Author : Thomas Giddens
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496829030

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Critical Directions in Comics Studies by Thomas Giddens Pdf

Contributions by Paul Fisher Davies, Lisa DeTora, Yasemin J. Erden, Adam Gearey, Thomas Giddens, Peter Goodrich, Maggie Gray, Matthew J. A. Green, Vladislav Maksimov, Timothy D. Peters, Christopher Pizzino, Nicola Streeten, and Lydia Wysocki Recent decades have seen comics studies blossom, but within the ecosystems of this growth, dominant assumptions have taken root—assumptions around the particular methods used to approach the comics form, the ways we should read comics, how its “system” works, and the disciplinary relationships that surround this evolving area of study. But other perspectives have also begun to flourish. These approaches question the reliance on structural linguistics and the tools of English and cultural studies in the examination and understanding of comics. In this edited collection, scholars from a variety of disciplines examine comics by addressing materiality and form as well as the wider economic and political contexts of comics’ creation and reception. Through this lens, influenced by poststructuralist theories, contributors explore and elaborate other possibilities for working with comics as a critical resource, consolidating the emergence of these alternative modes of engagement in a single text. This opens comics studies to a wider array of resources, perspectives, and modes of engagement. Included in this volume are essays on a range of comics and illustrations as well as considerations of such popular comics as Deadpool, Daredevil, and V for Vendetta, and analyses of comics production, medical illustrations, and original comics. Some contributions even unfold in the form of comics panels.

Law, Judges and Visual Culture

Author : Leslie J Moran
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780429865770

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Law, Judges and Visual Culture analyses how pictures have been used to make, manage and circulate ideas about the judiciary through a variety of media from the sixteenth century to the present. This book offers a new approach to thinking about and making sense of the important social institution that is the judiciary. In an age in which visual images and celebrity play key roles in the way we produce, communicate and consume ideas about society and its key institutions, this book provides the first in-depth study of visual images of judges in these contexts. It not only examines what appears within the frame of these images; it also explores the impact technologies and the media industries that produce them have upon the way we engage with them, and the experiences and meanings they generate. Drawing upon a wide range of scholarship – including art history, film and television studies, and social and cultural studies, as well as law – and interviews with a variety of practitioners, painters, photographers, television script writers and producers, as well as court communication staff and judges, the book generates new and unique insights into making, managing and viewing pictures of judges. Original and insightful, Law, Judges and Visual Culture will appeal to scholars, postgraduates and undergraduates from a variety of disciplines that hold an interest in the role of visual culture in the production of social justice and its institutions.

International Engagement in China's Human Rights

Author : Titus Chen,Dingding Chen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317752714

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International Engagement in China's Human Rights by Titus Chen,Dingding Chen Pdf

Since the Tiananmen Square incident in 1989 there has been increasing international pressure on China to improve its approach to human rights, whilst at the same time the Chinese government has itself realised that it needs to improve its approach, and has indeed done much to implement improvements. This book explores systematically the international engagement in human rights in China and assesses the impact of such foreign involvement. It looks at particular areas including criminal justice, labour, and religious freedom, considers the processes by which international pressure is brought to bear and the processes by which improvements are implemented in China, and concludes that, whilst China’s human rights record has improved more than many people realise, further improvements are still needed.

Politics, Theory, and Film

Author : Bonnie Honig,Lori J. Marso
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780190600174

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Politics, Theory, and Film by Bonnie Honig,Lori J. Marso Pdf

Lars von Trier's intense, disturbing, and sometimes funny films have led many to condemn him as misogynist or misanthropic. The same films inspire this collection's reflections on how our fears and desires regarding gender, power, race, finitude, family, and fate often thwart -- and sometimes feed -- our best democratic aspirations. The essays in this volume attend to von Trier's role as provocateur, as well as to his films' techniques, topics, and storytelling. Where others accuse von Trier of being clichéd, the editors argue that he intensifies the "clichés of our times" in ways that direct our political energies towards apprehending and repairing a shattered world. The book is certainly for von Trier lovers and haters but, at the same time, political, critical, and feminist theorists entirely unfamiliar with von Trier's films will find this volume's essays of interest. Most of the contributors tarry with von Trier to develop new readings of major thinkers and writers, including Agamben, Bataille, Beauvoir, Benjamin, Deleuze, Euripides, Freud, Kierkegaard, Ranciére, Nietzsche, Winnicott, and many more. Von Trier is both central and irrelevant to much of this work. Writing from the fields of classics, literature, gender studies, philosophy, film and political theory, the authors stage an interdisciplinary intervention in film studies.