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Injury and injustice : the cultural politics of harm and redress
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Addresses some of the most difficult and important debates over injury and law now taking place in societies around the world. The essays tackle the inescapable experience of injury and its implica...
Addresses some of the most difficult and important debates over injury and law now taking place in societies around the world. The essays tackle the inescapable experience of injury and its implications for social inequality in different cultural settings. Topics include the tension between physical and reputational injuries, the construction of human injuries versus injuries to non-human life, virtual injuries, the normalization and infliction of injuries on vulnerable victims, the question of reparations for slavery, and the paradoxical degradation of victims through legal actions meant to compensate them for their disabilities.
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- edited by Anne Bloom, University of California, Berkeley; David M. Engel, State University of New York at Buffalo; Michael McCann, University of Washington
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- English
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- Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2018
- ©2018
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- xv, 378 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781108332934, 1108420249, 9781108420242, 9781108413282
- OCLC
- on1002121581
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction / Michael McCann, David M. Engel, and Anne Bloom -- The meaning of injury : a disability perspective / Sagit Mor -- Injury in the unresponsive state : writing the vulnerable subject into neo-liberal legal culture / Martha Albertson Fineman -- "One small characteristic" : conceptualizing harm to animals and legal personhood / Claire E. Rasmussen -- Righteous injuries : victim's rights, discretion, and forbearance in Iranian criminal sanctioning / Arzoo Osanloo -- Chairs, stairs, and automobiles : the cultural construction of injuries and the failed promise of law / David M. Engel -- Incommensurability and power in constructing the meaning of injury at the medical malpractice disputes / Yoshitaka Wada -- Injury fields / S. Løchlann Jain -- Good injuries / Anne Bloom and Marc Galanter -- Privacy and the right to one's image : a cultural and legal history / Samantha Barbas -- Injury inequality / Mary Anne Franks -- The unconscionable impossibility of reparations for slavery; or, why the master's rules will never dismantle the master's house / Kaimipono David Wenger -- Inflicting legal injuries : the place of the "two-finger test" in Indian rape law / Pratiksha Baxi -- The state as victim : ethical politics of injury claims and revenge in international relations / Li Chen -- Law's imperial amnesia : transnational legal redress in East Asia / Yukiko Koga -- Conclusion / Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller