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This book analyses the founding years of consumer law and consumer
policy in Europe. It combines two dimensions: the making of
national consumer law and the making of European consumer law, and
how both are intertwined. The chapters on Germany, Italy, the
Nordic countries and the United Kingdom serve to explain the
economic and the political background which led to different legal
and policy approaches in the then old Member States from the 1960s
onwards. The chapter on Poland adds a different layer, the one of a
former socialist country with its own consumer law and how joining
the EU affected consumer law at the national level. The making of
European consumer law started in the 1970s rather cautiously, but
gradually the European Commission took an ever stronger position in
promoting not only European consumer law but also in supporting the
building of the European Consumer Organisation (BEUC), the umbrella
organisation of the national consumer bodies. The book unites the
early protagonists who were involved in the making of consumer law
in Europe: Guido Alpa, Ludwig Kramer, Ewa Letowska, Hans-W
Micklitz, Klaus Tonner, Iain Ramsay, and Thomas Wilhelmsson,
supported by the younger generation Aneta Wiewiorowska Domagalska,
Mateusz Grochowski, and Koen Docter, who reconstructs the history
of BEUC. Niklas Olsen and Thomas Roethe analyse the construction of
this policy field from a historical and sociological perspective.
This book offers a unique opportunity to understand a legal and
political field, that of consumer law and policy, which plays a
fundamental role in our contemporary societies.
Picturing Punishment examines representations of criminal bodies as
they moved in, through, and out of publicly accessible spaces in
the city during punishment rituals in the seventeenth-century Dutch
Republic. Once put to death, the criminal cadaver did not come to
rest. Its movement through public spaces indicated the potent
afterlife of the deviant body, especially its ability to transform
civic life. Focusing on material culture associated with key sites
of punishment, Anuradha Gobin argues that the circulation of visual
media related to criminal punishments was a particularly effective
means of generating discourse and formulating public opinion,
especially regarding the efficacy of civic authority. Certain types
of objects related to criminal punishments served a key role in
asserting republican ideals and demonstrating the ability of
officials to maintain order and control. Conversely, the
circulation of other types of images, such as inexpensive paintings
and prints, had the potential to subvert official messages. As
Gobin shows, visual culture thus facilitated a space in which
potentially dissenting positions could be formulated while also
bringing together seemingly disparate groups of people in a quest
for new knowledge. Combining a diverse array of sources including
architecture, paintings, prints, anatomical illustrations, and
preserved body parts, Picturing Punishment demonstrates how the
criminal corpse was reactivated, reanimated, and in many ways
reintegrated into society.
Centering on cases of sexual violence, this book illuminates the
contested introduction of British and French colonial criminal
justice in the Pacific Islands during the late 19th and early 20th
centuries, focusing on Fiji, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu/New
Hebrides. It foregrounds the experiences of Indigenous Islanders
and indentured laborers in the colonial court system, a space in
which marginalized voices entered the historical record. Rape and
sexual assault trials reveal how hierarchies of race, gender and
status all shaped the practice of colonial law in the courtroom and
the gendered experiences of colonialism. Trials provided a space
where men and women narrated their own story and at times
challenged the operation of colonial law. Through these cases,
Gender, Violence and Criminal Justice in the Colonial Pacific
highlights the extent to which colonial bureaucracies engaged with
and affected private lives, as well as the varied ways in which
individuals and communities responded to such intrusions and
themselves reshaped legal practices and institutions in the
Pacific. With bureaucratic institutions unable to deal with the
complex realities of colonial lives, Stevens reveals how the
courtroom often became a theatrical space in which authority was
performed, deliberately obscuring the more complex and violent
practices that were central to both colonialism and colonial
law-making. Exploring the intersections of legal pluralism and
local pragmatism across British and French colonialization in the
Pacific, this book shows how island communities and early colonial
administrators adopted diverse and flexible approaches towards
criminal justice, pursuing alternative forms of justice ranging
from unofficial courts to punitive violence in order to deal with
cases of sexual assault.
This book sheds new light on the ongoing fight to end prostitution
through a historical study of its emotional communities. An issue
that has long been the subject of much debate amongst feminists,
governments and communities alike, the history of the fight to end
prostitution has an important bearing on feminist politics today.
This book identifies key abolitionist emotional communities,
tracing their origins, interactions and evolutions with various
historical and contemporary emotional styles. In doing do,
Emotional Histories in the Fight to End Prostitution highlights a
more nuanced view of the movement's history. From Moral Liberals in
19th century Britain to the American anti-pornography movement and
Swedish 'Nordic Model', Emotional Histories in the Fight to End
Prostitution shows how emotional styles and practices have
influenced the evolution of the fight against prostitution in
Britain, the United States and Western Europe. From the fear of
sin, to maternal compassion and survivor shame and loss, Michele
Greer historicizes emotions and studies them as dynamic forms of
situated knowledge. In doing so, she sheds light on how women's
lived experiences have been transformed and politicized, and raises
important questions around how feminist emotions in social protest
can not only challenge but unknowingly defend existing
socio-political conventions and inequalities. Highlighting the
links between past and present forms of abolitionism, it shows that
this connection is more complex and far-reaching than currently
assumed, and offers new perspectives on the history of emotions.
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