Emotions: Essays on Emotion Theory

Emotions: Essays on Emotion Theory
ISBN-10
1317759893
ISBN-13
9781317759898
Series
Emotions
Category
Psychology
Pages
352
Language
English
Published
2013-10-31
Publisher
Psychology Press
Authors
Stephanie H.M. van Goozen, Nanne E. Van de Poll, Joseph A. Sergeant

Description

Contested States examines how hegemony is created and facilitated through law as well as how people use legal arenas to resist oppression. The essays, written by anthropologists and historians, offer rich historical and ethnographic detail as they engage these themes in such contexts as: colonial and post-colonial courts in Kenya, India, Uganda and the Caribbean; bureaucracies in Tonga and Turkey; and judicial processes in the historical and contemporary United States. Contested States contributes to the new focus on power and social process in legal studies and argues that while states encode and enforce law, a crucial part of the power of law is its very contestability. The book demonstrates that theoretical insights learned in legal arenas can deepen one's overall understanding of sociocultural order and the processes of historical and legal change.

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