Injury and injustice : the cultural politics of harm and redress / edited by Anne Bloom, University of California, Berkeley; David M. Engel, State University of New York at Buffalo; Michael McCann, University of Washington.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bloom, Anne, editor.

Engel, David M., editor.

McCann, Michael W., 1952- editor.

Series:

Cambridge studies in law and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Personal injuries.

Personal injuries--Social aspects.

Social aspects.

Physical Description:

xv, 378 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Cultural politics of harm and redress

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1108420249

9781108420242

OCLC:

1002121581