Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places Justice Beyond and Between |
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Editor:
| Constable, Marianne Volpp, Leti Wagner, Bryan |
Contribution by:
| Constable, Marianne Volpp, Leti Wagner, Bryan Abrams, Kathryn Boyarin, Daniel Brown, Wendy Esmeir, Samera Fisher, Daniel Ludin, Sara Mahmood, Saba McLennan, Rebecca Naddaff, Ramona Piatote, Beth Song, Sarah Tomlins, Christopher |
Series title: | Berkeley Forum in the Humanities Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-8232-8370-5 |
Publication Date: | Mar 2019 |
Publisher: | Fordham University Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $31.00 |
Book Description:
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For most, the right place to look for law is in constitutions, statutes, and judicial opinions. This interdisciplinary collection looks for law in the "wrong places"--sites and spaces in which no formal law appears--geographic regions beyond the law's reach, everyday practices ungoverned by law, works of art that have escaped law's constraints. Beyond showing law to be determined by or determinative of cultural phenomena, the contributors show how law is itself interwoven with...
More DescriptionFor most, the right place to look for law is in constitutions, statutes, and judicial opinions. This interdisciplinary collection looks for law in the "wrong places"--sites and spaces in which no formal law appears--geographic regions beyond the law's reach, everyday practices ungoverned by law, works of art that have escaped law's constraints. Beyond showing law to be determined by or determinative of cultural phenomena, the contributors show how law is itself interwoven with language, text, image, and culture.