""Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, and the Law" pulls together a fascinating set of essays that demonstrate the breadth and possibilities of this new field along with an introduction that lays out the field's terrain and describes something of its origins and possibilities. The intellectual movement is already under way; this book provides a focus for it."--Sally Engle Merry, author of "Colonizing Hawai'i: The Cultural Power of Law"
""Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, and the Law" pulls together a fascinating set of essays that demonstrate the breadth and possibilities of this new field along with an introduction that lays out the field's terrain and describes something of its origins and possibilities. The intellectual movement is already under way; this book provides a focus for it."--Sally Engle Merry, author of "Colonizing Hawai'i: The Cultural Power of Law"
Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. He is president of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities and past president of the Law & Society Association. He has written and edited many books, including When the State Kills: Capital Punishment and the American Condition. Jonathan Simon is Professor of Law at the University of Miami School of Law. He is the author of Poor Discipline: Parole and the Social Control of the Underclass, 1890–1990 and coeditor of Embracing Risk: The Changing Culture of Insurance and Responsibility.
Inhaltsangabe
Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, and the Situation of Legal Scholarship / Austin Sarat and Jonathan Simon 1 I. Approaches to the Cultural Study of Law Law as Culture / Naomi Mezey 37 What It Is and What It Isn't: Cultural Studies Meets Graduate Student Labor / Toby Miller 73 Telling a Less Suspicious Story: Notes toward a Nonskeptical Approach to Legal/Cultural Analysis / Paul Schiff Berman 105 Freedom, Autonomy, and the Cultural Studies of Law / Paul W. Kahn 154 II. Deploying Law and Legal Ideas in Culture and Society Ethnography and Democracy: Texts and Contexts in the United States in the 1990s / Carol J. Greenhouse 191 Rules of Law, Laws of Science / Wai Chee Dimock 220 Law, Therapy, Culture / Peter Brooks 245 III. Reading Legal Events A Ghost in the House of Justice: Death and the Language of the Law / Shoshana Felman 259 Lacan and Voting Rights / Anthony Paul Farley 304 “Into the Blue": The Image Written on Law / Alison Young 327 Contributors 353 Index 355
Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, and the Situation of Legal Scholarship / Austin Sarat and Jonathan Simon 1 I. Approaches to the Cultural Study of Law Law as Culture / Naomi Mezey 37 What It Is and What It Isn't: Cultural Studies Meets Graduate Student Labor / Toby Miller 73 Telling a Less Suspicious Story: Notes toward a Nonskeptical Approach to Legal/Cultural Analysis / Paul Schiff Berman 105 Freedom, Autonomy, and the Cultural Studies of Law / Paul W. Kahn 154 II. Deploying Law and Legal Ideas in Culture and Society Ethnography and Democracy: Texts and Contexts in the United States in the 1990s / Carol J. Greenhouse 191 Rules of Law, Laws of Science / Wai Chee Dimock 220 Law, Therapy, Culture / Peter Brooks 245 III. Reading Legal Events A Ghost in the House of Justice: Death and the Language of the Law / Shoshana Felman 259 Lacan and Voting Rights / Anthony Paul Farley 304 “Into the Blue": The Image Written on Law / Alison Young 327 Contributors 353 Index 355
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