Injury and Injustice: The Cultural Politics of Harm and Redress

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108420249
• ISBN13: 9781108420242
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"