Intersections of Law and Culture Palgrave MacMillan SocioLegal Studies

An inter-disciplinary, international collection that examines the mutual influences between law and culture through a series of sophisticated case studies showing how cultural phenomena are brought under legal regulation, how laws are resisted through cultural practices, and how those practices shape the way in which law is understood and applied. Setting The Stage : Reading Law And Culture / Priska Gisler, Sara Steinert Borella And Caroline Wiedmer -- Law As Gendered Narratives : Criminal Court Decisions Against Left Wing Terrorists / Dominique Grisard -- Every Picture Speaks A Thousand Words : Visualizing Judicial Authority In The Press / Leslie J. Moran -- I Hereby Find You Guilty Of Cheating : How Television Judges Give Personal Problems Legal Dimensions / Anna Krakus -- Female Genital Cutting, Migration And The Art Of Legal Boundary Maintenance / Caroline Wiedmer -- The Actant Doesn't Speak : Configuring A Law For Research On Humans / Priska Gisler -- Giù Le Mani Dalla Mia Storia : Narrating Regional Identity Politics In Ticino / Sara Steinert Borella -- 'that's Life' : Actualizing The Non-lieu As An Empty Space / Fabio Ferrari -- 'on The Study Methods Of Our Time' : Methodologies Of Law And Literature In The Context Of Interdisciplinary Studies / Jeanne Gaakeer -- The Reader As Thought Experiment : Character, Moral Luck And The Contingent / Melanie Williams -- Between The Rational And The Marvellous : Edgar Allan Poe And The Counter-enlightenment Origins Of The Modern Detective Story / Neil Sargent -- Law's Life On The Screen / Richard K. Sherwin. Edited By Priska Gisler, Berne University Of The Arts, Switzerland ; Sara Steinert Borella, Franklin College, Switzerland ; Caroline Wiedmer, Franklin College, Switzerland. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Front Matter....Pages i-x Setting the Stage: Reading Law and Culture....Pages 1-13 Front Matter....Pages 15-15 Law as Gendered Narratives: Criminal Court Decisions against Left-Wing Terrorists....Pages 17-30 Every Picture Speaks a Thousand Words: Visualizing Judicial Authority in the Press....Pages 31-49 I Hereby Find You Guilty of Cheating: How Television Judges Give Personal Problems Legal Dimensions....Pages 50-65 Female Genital Cutting, Migration and the Art of Legal Boundary Maintenance....Pages 66-82 Front Matter....Pages 83-83 The Actant Doesn’t Speak: Configuring a Law for Research on Humans....Pages 85-101 Giù le mani dalla mia storia: Narrating Regional Identity Politics in Ticino....Pages 102-115 ‘That’s Life’: Actualizing the Non-Lieu as an Empty Space....Pages 116-130 Front Matter....Pages 131-131 ‘On the Study Methods of our Time’: Methodologies of Law and Literature in the Context of Interdisciplinary Studies....Pages 133-149 The Reader as Thought Experiment: Character, Moral Luck and the Contingent....Pages 150-169 Between the Rational and the Marvellous: Edgar Allan Poe and the Counter-Enlightenment Origins of the Modern Detective Story....Pages 170-191 Law’s Life on the Screen....Pages 192-212 Back Matter....Pages 213-216