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This thoroughly engaging book uses empirical analysis to illustrate
that the response of individuals to global terror events, via
social media, provokes an opportunity to interpret the ways in
which individuals view their place in the world and their relation
to law and justice. It is through analysing these responses that
Cassandra Sharp demonstrates that a 'hashtag jurisprudence' can be
constructed. Sharp offers a theory of law that combines narratives,
the experience of terror and the expression of emotion through
social media engagement. Using thought-provoking case studies of
terrorist attacks between 2014 and 2018 from around the world, the
book examines how social media has quickly become the new forum for
members of the public to express their opinions on current law and
justice. It further demonstrates the significant impact that
comments on social media platforms can have on social justice
issues and activism. This timely book will be required reading for
academics in law, social sciences and humanities. Scholars with an
interest in legal theory, philosophy, and law and emotion will find
the case study findings insightful and informative.
What can law's popular cultures do for law, as a constitutive and
interrogative critical practice? This collection explores such a
question through the lens of the 'cultural legal studies' movement,
which proffers a new encounter with the 'cultural turn' in law and
legal theory. Moving beyond the 'law ands' (literature, humanities,
culture, film, visual and aesthetics) on which it is based, this
book demonstrates how the techniques and practices of cultural
legal studies can be used to metamorphose law and the legalities
that underpin its popular imaginary. By drawing on three different
modes of cultural legal studies - storytelling, technology and
jurisprudence - the collection showcases the intersectional
practices of cultural legal studies, and law in its popular
cultural mode. The contributors to the collection deploy
differentiated modes of cultural legal studies practice, adopting
diverse philosophical, disciplinary, methodological and theoretical
approaches and subjects of examination. The collection draws on
this mix of diversity and homogeneity to thread together its
overarching theme: that we must take seriously an interrogation of
law as culture and in its cultural form. That is, it does not ask
how a text 'represents' law; but rather how the representational
nature of both law and culture intersect so that the 'juridical'
become visible in various cultural manifestations. In short, it
asks: how law's popular cultures actively effect the metamorphosis
of law.
What can law's popular cultures do for law, as a constitutive and
interrogative critical practice? This collection explores such a
question through the lens of the 'cultural legal studies' movement,
which proffers a new encounter with the 'cultural turn' in law and
legal theory. Moving beyond the 'law ands' (literature, humanities,
culture, film, visual and aesthetics) on which it is based, this
book demonstrates how the techniques and practices of cultural
legal studies can be used to metamorphose law and the legalities
that underpin its popular imaginary. By drawing on three different
modes of cultural legal studies - storytelling, technology and
jurisprudence - the collection showcases the intersectional
practices of cultural legal studies, and law in its popular
cultural mode. The contributors to the collection deploy
differentiated modes of cultural legal studies practice, adopting
diverse philosophical, disciplinary, methodological and theoretical
approaches and subjects of examination. The collection draws on
this mix of diversity and homogeneity to thread together its
overarching theme: that we must take seriously an interrogation of
law as culture and in its cultural form. That is, it does not ask
how a text 'represents' law; but rather how the representational
nature of both law and culture intersect so that the 'juridical'
become visible in various cultural manifestations. In short, it
asks: how law's popular cultures actively effect the metamorphosis
of law.
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