Browsing On_Culture Vol. 03 (2017) by Issue Date
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Undoing ableism: disability as a category of historical and legal analysis
(2017)In this essay, I will apply disability as a category of legal and historical analysis to undo the different forms ableism can take in US history and law. My aim is to look at a specific time period in US history the turn ... -
On un-doing law
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The legal person and its other: a comparative view on drawing and effacing boundaries in various cultural contexts
(2017)Focusing on the project of de-humanizing law calls for a discussion of the concept of the legal person for two reasons. Firstly, legal processes of personification have at times gone beyond the anthropocentric bias in ... -
Law undone: corporeal subversion in Mariella Mehr’s Stoneage
(2017)At a time in which the corporeality of excluded subjects is prominent in socio-political discourse, this article proposes a critical interdisciplinary reading of the way in which the juridical positioning of the corporeal ... -
The juridical voice of literature: a perspective on literature's entanglement with normativity
(2017)Based on the logic of the Lacanian mirror paradigm, Pierre Legendre claims that every culture needs to create a metaphysical entity of Reference, for the sake of the legitimacy and validity of its normative system. This ... -
The law's gender: entanglements and recursions - three stories from Sri Lanka
(2017)Our essay examines the recursions, rationalities, limits, and promise of the law drawing on three recent cases of women who encountered law enforcement authorities and the courts in Sri Lanka. It provides a strong account ... -
Bypassing the law in a homeless vehicle: Alan Bennett's The Lady in the Van
(2017)In The Lady in the Van, British playwright Alan Bennett recounts his two-decade acquaintance with a homeless woman who ended up living in a van in his driveway for 15 years. The story has gone through several incarnations, ... -
Visualizing law's pluralities: artistic practice and legal culture
(2017)This essay presents and analyzes an exhibition on Law s Pluralities. The exhibition was an integral part of the academic conference Law s Pluralities: Cultures/Narratives/Images/Genders that was held at the University ...