Injury and Injustice
The Cultural Politics of Harm and Redress
Published on 8. August 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
402 pages
978-1-108-41328-2 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises; 2 Halftones, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
535 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-41328-2 (9781108413282)
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Anne Bloom | David M. Engel | Michael McCann
Injury and Injustice
The Cultural Politics of Harm and Redress
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03/2018
Cambridge University Press
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Anne Bloom | David M. Engel | Michael McCann
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The Cultural Politics of Harm and Redress
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Content
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 Lochlann 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.