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1. After Cosmopolitanism

   Edited by Rosi Braidotti, Patrick Hanafin, Bolette Blaagaard

   At a time when social and political reality seems to move away from the practice of cosmopolitanism, whilst being in serious need of a new international framework to regulate global interaction, what are the new definitions and practices of cosmopolitanism? Including contributions from leading...

   Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge
2. Television and the Legal System

   By Barbara Villez

   Series: Routledge Studies in Law, Society and Popular Culture

   This book examines the American television legal series from its development as a genre in the 1940s to the present day. Villez demonstrates how the genre has been a rich source of legal information and understanding for Americans. These series have both informed and put myths in place about the...

   Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
3. Kangaroo Courts and the Rule of Law - The Legacy of Modernism

   By Desmond Manderson

   Kangaroo Courts and the Rule of Law -The Legacy of Modernism addresses the legacy of contemporary critiques of language for the concept of the rule of law. Between those who care about the rule of law and those who are interested in contemporary legal theory, there has been a dialogue of the deaf,...

   Published June 20th 2012 by Routledge
4. Security Games

   Surveillance and Control at Mega-Events

   Edited by Colin Bennett, Kevin Haggerty

   Security Games: Surveillance and Control at Mega-Events addresses the impact of mega-events – such as the Olympic Games and the World Cup – on wider practices of security and surveillance. "Mega-Events" pose peculiar and extensive security challenges. The overwhelming imperative is that "...

   Published December 31st 2011 by Routledge
5. Creativity and Cultural Policy

   Edited by Chris Bilton

   Creativity has become a popular buzzword in contemporary cultural policy, yet the term remains poorly understood. In this collection, cultural policy specialists together with experts on psychology, creative enterprise and arts education, consider how ‘creativity’ is defined in a variety of...

   Published December 6th 2011 by Routledge
6. Rights of Passage

   Sidewalks and the Regulation of Public Flow

   By Nicholas Blomley

   Series: Social Justice

   Rights of Passage: Sidewalks and the Regulation of Public Flow documents a powerful and under-researched form of urban governance that focuses on pedestrian flow. This logic, which Nicholas Blomley terms 'pedestrianism', values public space not in terms of its aesthetic merits, or its success in...

   Published October 5th 2011 by Routledge
7. Novel Judgements

   Legal Theory as Fiction

   By William P. MacNeil

   Series: Discourses of Law

   Novel Judgements is a book about nineteenth century Anglo-American law and literature. But by redefining law as legal theory, Novel judgements departs from ‘socio-legal’ studies of law and literature, often dated in their focus on past lawyering and court processes. This texts ‘theoretical turn’...

   Published September 6th 2011 by Routledge-Cavendish
8. Revenge versus Legality

   Wild Justice from Balzac to Clint Eastwood and Abu Ghraib

   By Katherine Maynard, Jarod Kearney, James Guimond

   Series: Birkbeck Law Press

   In the wake of Guantanamo Bay, extraordinary renditions, and secret torture centres in Eastern Europe and elsewhere, Revenge versus Legality addresses the relationship between law and wild or vigilante justice; between the power to enforce retribution and the desire to seek revenge. Taking up a...

   Published August 17th 2011 by Routledge-Cavendish
9. Visualizing Law in the Age of the Digital Baroque

   Arabesques & Entanglements

   By Richard K Sherwin

   Series: Discourses of Law

   Visualizing Law in the Age of the Digital Baroque explores the profound impact that visual digital technologies are having on the practice and theory of law. Today, lawyers, judges, and lay jurors face a vast array of visual evidence and visual argument. From videos documenting crimes and accidents...

   Published June 16th 2011 by Routledge
10. Emotions, Genre, Justice in Film and Television

    Detecting Feeling

    By Deidre Pribram

    Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

    Popular film and television are ideally suited in understanding how emotions create culturally shared meanings. Yet very little has been done in this area. Emotion, Genre, and Justice in Film and Television explores textual representations of emotions from a cultural perspective, rather than in...

    Published April 24th 2011 by Routledge