Special Issue.

Social movements provide the engine of legal change and law itself spurs social movement activity. This issue of Studies in Law, Politics and Society examines the legal life of social movements and their impact on law. The articles collected here take up social movements in several different nations...

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Main Author: Sarat, Austin
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bradford : Emerald Group Pub., 2011
Series:Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, 54.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • FRONT COVER; SPECIAL ISSUE: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS/LEGAL POSSIBILITIES; COPYRIGHT PAGE; CONTENTS; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; EDITORIAL BOARD; TWO SPINNING WHEELS: STUDYING LAW AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS; DECOLONIZING THE LAW: LGBT ORGANIZING IN NAMIBIA AND SOUTH AFRICA; SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND THE STATE'S CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY: THE CASE OF MUSLIMS IN FRANCE; REJECTING RIGHTS: THE DISABILITY CRITIQUE OF PHYSICIAN ASSISTED SUICIDE; SOCIAL MOVEMENTS LASHING BACK: LAW, SOCIAL CHANGE AND INTRA-SOCIAL MOVEMENT BACKLASH IN CANADA.