Injury and injustice: The cultural politics of harm and redress

© Cambridge University Press 2018. All rights reserved. This book addresses some of the most difficult and important debates over injury and law now taking place in societies around the world. The essays tackle the inescapable experience of injury and its implications for social inequality in differ...

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Main Authors:	Anne Bloom, David M. Engel, Michael McCann
Format:	Book
Published:	2018
Subjects:	Social Sciences
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spelling	th-cmuir.6653943832-591642018-09-05T04:40:31Z Injury and injustice: The cultural politics of harm and redress Anne Bloom David M. Engel Michael McCann Social Sciences © Cambridge University Press 2018. All rights reserved. This book addresses some of the most difficult and important debates over injury and law now taking place in societies around the world. The essays tackle the inescapable experience of injury and its implications for social inequality in different cultural settings. Topics include the tension between physical and reputational injuries, the construction of human injuries versus injuries to non-human life, virtual injuries, the normalization and infliction of injuries on vulnerable victims, the question of reparations for slavery, and the paradoxical degradation of victims through legal actions meant to compensate them for their disabilities. Authors include social theorists, social scientists and legal scholars, and the subject matter extends to the Middle East and Asia, as well as North America. 2018-09-05T04:40:31Z 2018-09-05T04:40:31Z 2018-03-15 Book 2-s2.0-85047383271 10.1017/9781108332934 https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85047383271&origin=inward http://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/jspui/handle/6653943832/59164
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description	© Cambridge University Press 2018. All rights reserved. This book addresses some of the most difficult and important debates over injury and law now taking place in societies around the world. The essays tackle the inescapable experience of injury and its implications for social inequality in different cultural settings. Topics include the tension between physical and reputational injuries, the construction of human injuries versus injuries to non-human life, virtual injuries, the normalization and infliction of injuries on vulnerable victims, the question of reparations for slavery, and the paradoxical degradation of victims through legal actions meant to compensate them for their disabilities. Authors include social theorists, social scientists and legal scholars, and the subject matter extends to the Middle East and Asia, as well as North America.
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