Cultural Studies of Law - 9781138018556

Name: Cultural Studies of Law - 9781138018556
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Cultural Studies of LawAuthor(s): Cristyn Davies, Sara Knox\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138018556, 978-1138018556\nSynopsis\nThis edited collection is a cultural analysis of how law is shaped into procedure and principle by the conditions of everyday life. Law is constitutive of culture just as culture and cultural analyses shape, resist and interrogate legal regulation, exception and norms. So too does law have a dual capacity in the field of culture: it enables the formation of subjects and of cultural practices, and it constrains those very formations. This book uses the animating critical concerns of Cultural Studies over the last 20 yearsthat is, the symbolic, material, economic, and political practices and power relations that are inscribed in everyday lifeto analyze the assembly of practices, procedures, sites, interactions and agents of law. The chapters in this collection accordingly examine the con.