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Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places

Justice Beyond and Between

Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places( )
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
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $31.00
Book Description:

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...
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Book Details
Pages:272
Detailed Subjects: Law / Jurisprudence
Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / General
Law / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.928 x 8.931 x 0.585 Inches
Book Weight:1.465 Pounds
Author Biography
(Editor)
Saba Mahmood was born in Quetta, Pakistan on February 3, 1961. She moved to the United States in 1981 to study architecture and urban planning at the University of Washington in Seattle. She received a doctorate in anthropology from Stanford University in 1998. She taught at the University of Chicago before joining the faculty at the University of California at Berkeley in 2004. She was a scholar of modern Egypt who specialized in sociocultural anthropology. Her work focused on the intersection of Islam and feminist theory. She wrote several books including Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject and Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report. She died from pancreatic cancer on March 10, 2018 at the age of 57.

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