Socio-Legal Studies - Media & Cultural Studies

Corporeality, Medical Technologies and Contemporary Culture engages the confusions and contradictions in current attitudes to, and practices of, the body...

What can popular cultures offer law, as a basis for critical practice? This introduction to the ‘cultural legal studies’ presents a new encounter with the ‘cultural turn’ in law and legal theory. The collection brings together leading scholars from Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the Unit..

What can popular cultures offer law, as a basis for critical practice? This introduction to the ‘cultural legal studies’ presents a new encounter with the ‘cultural turn’ in law and legal theory. The collection brings together leading scholars from Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the Unit..

Justice as Improvisation: The Law of the Extempore theorises the relationship between justice and improvisation through the case of the New York City cabaret laws...

Focusing largely on art in the context of the copyright regime, but also addressing a number of cultural heritage issues, it is the productive and creative potential of law itself that is elicited through the book’s approach to the commons as the empirical basis for a new legal framework, which is a..

This book employs actor-network theory in order to examine how representations of crime are produced for contemporary prime-time television dramas. A unique examination of the production of contemporary crime television dramas, particularly their writing process, Making Crime Television: Producing E..

What is street art? Who is the street artist? Why is street art a crime? Street Art, Public City: Law, Crime and the Urban Imagination engages with these questions in order to understand how street art reveals new modes of citizenship in the contemporary city. It examines the histories of street art..

In 2013, Argentina celebrates thirty years of democracy since the end of the last dictatorship (1976-83). In that period, visual artists and art-activists have been central both to campaigns that have sought to initiate the criminal prosecutions of those initially granted amnesty and to a variety of..

In 2013, Argentina celebrates thirty years of democracy since the end of the last dictatorship (1976-83). In that period, visual artists and art-activists have been central both to campaigns that have sought to initiate the criminal prosecutions of those initially granted amnesty and to a variety of..

This book critically confronts perceptions that social media has become a ‘wasteland’ for young people. The legal tendency to focus exclusively on the need to protect and control their online presence and privacy, whilst tending to suspect, or to criminalise, their use of it – has obscured the poten..