This book explores the inescapable experience of injury and its implications for social inequality in different cultural settings. Authors include social theorists, social scientists and legal scholars, and the subject matter extends to the Middle East and Asia, as well as North America.
This book explores the inescapable experience of injury and its implications for social inequality in different cultural settings. Authors include social theorists, social scientists and legal scholars, and the subject matter extends to the Middle East and Asia, as well as North America.
Part I. Injury and the Construction of Legal Subjects: 1. The meaning of injury: a disability perspective Sagit Mor; 2. Injury in the unresponsive state: writing the vulnerable subject into neo-liberal legal culture Martha Fineman; 3. One small characteristic: conceptualizing harm to animals and legal personhood Claire Rasmussen; 4. Righteous injuries: victim's rights, discretion, and forbearance in Iranian criminal sanctioning Arzoo Osanloo; Part II. Constructing Injury, Imagining Remedies: 5. Chairs, stairs, and automobiles: the cultural construction of injuries and the failed promise of law David Engel; 6. Incommensurability and power in constructing the meaning of injury at the medical malpractice disputes Yoshitaka Wada; 7. Injury fields Løchlann Jain; 8. Good injuries Anne Bloom and Marc Galanter; 9. Privacy and the right to one's image: a cultural and legal history Samantha Barbas; Part III. Inequality and/as Injury: 10. Injury inequality Mary Anne Franks; 11. The unconscionable impossibility of reparations for slavery; or, why the master's mules will never dismantle the master's house Kimipono David Wenger; 12. Inflicting legal injuries: the place of the 'two-finger test' in Indian rape law Pratiksha Baxi; 13. The state as victim: ethical politics of injury claims and revenge in international relations Li Chen; 14. Law's imperial amnesia: transnational legal redress in East Asia Yukiko Koga; Conclusion Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller.
Part I. Injury and the Construction of Legal Subjects: 1. The meaning of injury: a disability perspective Sagit Mor; 2. Injury in the unresponsive state: writing the vulnerable subject into neo-liberal legal culture Martha Fineman; 3. One small characteristic: conceptualizing harm to animals and legal personhood Claire Rasmussen; 4. Righteous injuries: victim's rights, discretion, and forbearance in Iranian criminal sanctioning Arzoo Osanloo; Part II. Constructing Injury, Imagining Remedies: 5. Chairs, stairs, and automobiles: the cultural construction of injuries and the failed promise of law David Engel; 6. Incommensurability and power in constructing the meaning of injury at the medical malpractice disputes Yoshitaka Wada; 7. Injury fields Løchlann Jain; 8. Good injuries Anne Bloom and Marc Galanter; 9. Privacy and the right to one's image: a cultural and legal history Samantha Barbas; Part III. Inequality and/as Injury: 10. Injury inequality Mary Anne Franks; 11. The unconscionable impossibility of reparations for slavery; or, why the master's mules will never dismantle the master's house Kimipono David Wenger; 12. Inflicting legal injuries: the place of the 'two-finger test' in Indian rape law Pratiksha Baxi; 13. The state as victim: ethical politics of injury claims and revenge in international relations Li Chen; 14. Law's imperial amnesia: transnational legal redress in East Asia Yukiko Koga; Conclusion Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller.
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