Cultural Studies of Law

This edited collection is a cultural analysis of how law is shaped into procedure and principle by the conditions of everyday life.

List of contents

1. The force of meaning: cultural studies of law Sara L. Knox and Cristyn Davies 2. Memory and echo: pop cult, hi tech and the irony of tradition Desmond Manderson 3. Temporal horizons: On the possibilities of law and fatherhood in To Kill a Mockingbird Austin Sarat and Martha Merrill Umphrey 4. Entertaining torture, embodying law Peter J. Hutchings 5. Instrumental and gratuitous violence: The torture and death of Gul Rahman in the CIA Salt Pit Joseph Pugliese 6. Constructing ‘decency’: government subsidized cultural production during the culture wars Cristyn Davies 7. Weapons of sex, weapons of war: Feminisms, ethnic conflict and the rise of rape and sexual violence in public international law during the 1990s Rana Jaleel 8. Legitimating transphobia: the legal disavowal of transgender rights in prison John Nguyet Erni

About the author

Cristyn Davies is a Research Associate at the University of Sydney, Australia. She has published widely in Cultural Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies.
Sara L. Knox is an Associate Professor in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney, Australia. She is an interdisciplinary scholar researching the representation of violence in a range of cultural sites.

Summary

Law is constitutive of culture just as culture and cultural analyses shape, resist and interrogate legal regulation, exception and norms. The essays in this collection examine the conditions of law’s everyday life, in situations ordinary and extraordinary, to show it in the moment of its working. This book was originally published as a special issue of Cultural Studies.

Product details

• Authors: Cristyn (University of Sydney Davies, Cristyn Knox Davies
• Assisted by: Cristyn Davies (Editor), Cristyn (University of Sydney Davies (Editor), Davies Cristyn (Editor), Sara Knox (Editor), Sara L. Knox (Editor), Sara L. (University of Western Sydney Knox (Editor), Knox Sara (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.05.2014
• EAN: 9781138018556
• ISBN: 978-1-138-01855-6
• No. of pages: 182
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LAW / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Law & society, Law and society, sociology of law