Law in Crisis - The Ecstatic Subject of Natural Disaster

Zusatztext "Miller takes us on a fundamentally original and compelling journey as she reexamines the way that legal subjectivity and modern law is conceptualized. Challenging conventional assumptions, she insightfully argues the case that it is subjects who are displaced or unbounded that are the norm of law and politics. This is important, innovative work." Informationen zum Autor Ruth A. Miller is Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern History at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She is the author of The Erotics of Corruption: Law, Scandal, and Political Perversion (2008) and The Limits of Bodily Integrity: Abortion, Adultery, and Rape Legislation in Comparative Perspective (2007). Klappentext Law in Crisis is an unsettling history of natural disaster and political subject formation in the modern world. Zusammenfassung Law in Crisis is an unsettling history of natural disaster and political subject formation in the modern world.

Product details

• Authors: Ruth A Miller, Ruth A. Miller
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.08.2009
• EAN: 9780804762564
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-6256-4
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: The Cultural Lives of Law
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law