1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910780378603321

Autore

Nader Laura

Titolo

The life of the law [[electronic resource] ] : anthropological projects / / Laura Nader

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002

ISBN

0-520-93618-3

1-59734-713-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (278 p.)

Disciplina

340/.115

Soggetti

Law and anthropology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-250) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Evolving an Ethnography of Law: A Personal Document -- 2. Lawyers and Anthropologists -- 3. Hegemonic Processes in Law: Colonial to Contemporary -- 4. The Plaintiff: A User Theory -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Laura Nader, an instrumental figure in the development of the field of legal anthropology, investigates an issue of vital importance for our time: the role of the law in the struggle for social and economic justice. In this book she gives an overview of the history of legal anthropology and at the same time urges anthropologists, lawyers, and activists to recognize the centrality of law in social change. Nader traces the evolution of the plaintiff's role in the United States in the second half of the twentieth century and passionately argues that the atrophy of the plaintiff's power during this period represents a profound challenge to justice and democracy. Taking into account the vast changes wrought in both anthropology and the law by globalization, Nader speaks to the increasing dominance of large business corporations and the prominence of neoliberal ideology and practice today. In her discussion of these trends, she considers the rise of the alternative dispute resolution movement, which since the 1960's has been part of a major overhaul of the U.S. judicial system. Nader links the increasing popularity of this movement with the erosion of the plaintiff's power and suggests that mediation as an approach to conflict resolution is



structured to favor powerful--often corporate--interests.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910826956203321

Autore

Mattingly Cheryl <1951->

Titolo

Moral laboratories : family peril and the struggle for a good life / / Cheryl Mattingly

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-520-28120-9

0-520-95953-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Classificazione

SOC002000MED035000SOC026000

Disciplina

362.19892009794/93

Soggetti

Chronically ill children - Medical care - Moral and ethical aspects - California - Los Angeles County

Children with disabilities - Medical care - Moral and ethical aspects - California - Los Angeles County

African American families - California - Los Angeles County

Medical anthropology - California - Los Angeles County

Medical ethics - California - Los Angeles County

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Chapter 1. Experimental Soccer and the Good Life -- Chapter 2. First Person Virtue Ethics and the Anthropology of Morality -- Chapter 3. Home Experiments -- Chapter 4. Luck, Friendship, and the Narrative Self -- Chapter 5. Moral Tragedy -- Chapter 6. The Flight of the Blue Balloons -- Chapter 7. Rival Moral Traditions and the Miracle Baby -- Chapter 8. Dueling Confessions -- Chapter 9. Tragedy, Possibility, and Philosophical Anthropology -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Moral Laboratories is an engaging ethnography and a groundbreaking foray into the anthropology of morality. It takes us on a journey into the lives of African American families caring for children with serious chronic medical conditions, and it foregrounds the uncertainty that



affects their struggles for a good life. Challenging depictions of moral transformation as possible only in moments of breakdown or in radical breaches from the ordinary, it offers a compelling portrait of the transformative powers embedded in day-to-day existence. From soccer fields to dinner tables, the everyday emerges as a moral laboratory for reshaping moral life. Cheryl Mattingly offers vivid and heart-wrenching stories to elaborate a first-person ethical framework, forcefully showing the limits of third-person renderings of morality. 

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA990004100510403321

Autore

Anders, Günther <1902-1992>

Titolo

L'uomo è antiquato : considerazioni sull'anima nell'era della seconda rivoluzione industriale / Günther Anders ; traduzione di Laura Dallapiccola

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano, : Il Saggiatore, 1963

Descrizione fisica

322 p. ; 21 cm

Collana

La cultura , Storia, critica, testi ; 76

Disciplina

128.1

303.483

Locazione

FLFBC

BFS

FI1

Collocazione

P.1 FG 2492

DAM A15 ANDG 01

DIC / AND 3

F.D.i2-027

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia