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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791780303321

Titolo

Special issue [[electronic resource] ] : social movements/legal possibilities / / edited by Austin Sarat

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bingley, U.K., : Emerald Group Pub. Ltd., 2011

ISBN

1-283-01643-5

9786613016430

0-85724-826-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

ix, 259 p. : ill

Collana

Studies in law, politics and society, , 1059-4337 ; ; v. 54

Altri autori (Persone)

SaratAustin

Disciplina

340.115

Soggetti

Law - General

Law - Civil Rights

Political Science - Civics & Citizenship

Law & society

Legal system: general

Social movements

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Two spinning wheels : studying law and social movements / Scott Barclay, Lynn C. Jones, Anna-Maria Marshall -- Decolonizing the law : LGBT organizing in Namibia and South Africa / Ashley Currier -- Social movements and the state's construction of identity : the case of Muslims in France / Jennifer Fredette -- Rejecting rights : the disability critique of physician assisted suicide / Katharina Heyer -- Social movements lashing back : law, social change and intra-social movement backlash in Canada / Lisa Vanhala -- Protest arrests and future protest participation : the 2004 Republican National Convention arrestees and the effects of repression / Jennifer Earl -- Convincing elites, controlling elites / Douglas NeJaime -- After 9/11 : Guantánamo and the mobilization of lawyers / Devyani Prabhat.

Sommario/riassunto

Social movements provide the engine of legal change and law itself spurs social movement activity. This issue of Studies in Law, Politics and Society examines the legal life of social movements and their impact on law. The articles collected here take up social movements in



several different nations, including France, South Africa and Canada, asking us to consider the way context is reflected in movement activities.