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Human Rights, Suffering, and Aesthetics in Political Prison Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 226

Human Rights, Suffering, and Aesthetics in Political Prison Literature

This interdisciplinary volume of essays studies human rights in political prison literature, while probing the intersections of suffering, politics, and aesthetics in an interliterary and intercultural context. As the first book to explore the concept of global aesthetics in political prison narratives, it demonstrates how literary insight enhances the study of human rights. Covering varied geographical and geopolitical regions, this collection encourages comparative analyses and cross-cultural understanding. Seeking to interrogate linguistic, structural, and cultural constructions of the political prison experience, it highlights the literary aspects without losing sight of the political an...

Minding the Law
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 467

Minding the Law

  • Categories: Law

In this remarkable collaboration, one of the nation's leading civil rights lawyers joins forces with one of the world's foremost cultural psychologists to put American constitutional law into an American cultural context. By close readings of key Supreme Court opinions, they show how storytelling tactics and deeply rooted mythic structures shape the Court's decisions about race, family law, and the death penalty. Minding the Law explores crucial psychological processes involved in the work of lawyers and judges: deciding whether particular cases fit within a legal rule ("categorizing"), telling stories to justify one's claims or undercut those of an adversary ("narrative"), and tailoring one...

Post-Work
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 289

Post-Work

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-10-18
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  • Publisher: Routledge

In Post-Work, Stanley Aronowitz and Jonathan Cutler have collected essays from a variety of scholars to discuss the dreary future of work. The introduction, The Post-Work Manifesto,, provides the framework for a radical reappraisal of work and suggests an alternative organization of labor. The provocative essays that follow focus on specific issues that are key to our reconceptualization of the notion and practice of work, with coverage of the fight for shorter hours, the relationship between school and work, and the role of welfare, among others. Armed with an interdisciplinary approach, Post-Work looks beyond the rancorous debates around welfare politics and lays out the real sources of anxiety in the modern workplace. The result is an offering of hope for the future--an alternative path for a cybernation, where the possibility of less work for a better standard of living is possible.

IBSS: Sociology: 2002 Vol.52
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1023

IBSS: Sociology: 2002 Vol.52

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004-03-01
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  • Publisher: Routledge

First published in 1952, the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology) is well established as a major bibliographic reference for students, researchers and librarians in the social sciences worldwide. Key features * Authority: Rigorous standards are applied to make the IBSS the most authoritative selective bibliography ever produced. Articles and books are selected on merit by some of the world's most expert librarians and academics. *Breadth: today the IBSS covers over 2000 journals - more than any other comparable resource. The latest monograph publications are also included. *International Coverage: the IBSS reviews schol...

Frontiers of Legal Theory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 474

Frontiers of Legal Theory

The most exciting development in legal thinking since World War II has been the growth of interdisciplinary legal studies. Judge Richard Posner has been a leader in this movement, and his new book explores its rapidly expanding frontier.

Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation Between Church and State
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 295

Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation Between Church and State

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003-10
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  • Publisher: NYU Press

No phrase in American letters has had a more profound influence on church-state law, policy, and discourse than Thomas Jefferson's "wall of separation between church and state," and few metaphors have provoked more passionate debate.

The Best American Essays 2018
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 334

The Best American Essays 2018

Presents an anthology of the best literary essays published in the past year, selected from American periodicals.

Fight the Power
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 337

Fight the Power

Fight the Power considers timely social justice issues for Black people in America through the lens hip-hop lyrics.

Stones of Law, Bricks of Shame
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 305

Stones of Law, Bricks of Shame

Studying the ways in which writings on prisons were woven into the fabric of the period, the contributors to this volumen consider the ways in which these works affected inmates, the prison system, and the Victorian public.

Entertaining Crime
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 390

Entertaining Crime

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-02-06
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  • Publisher: Routledge

In eleven original studies by social scientists, this is the first volume to focus on television reality crime programming as a genre. Contributors address such questions as: why do these programs exist; what larger cultural meaning do they have; what effect do they have on audiences; and what do they indicate about crime and justice in the late twentieth century? Adaptable at both undergraduate and graduate levels, Entertaining Crime will contribute to discussions of crime and the media, as well as crime in relation to other issues, such as gender, race/ethnicity, and fear of crime.