Law and social movements. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Michael McCann.
• Other Names: McCann, Michael W, 1952-
• Contents: Legal mobilization and social reform movements : notes on theory and its application / Michael W. McCann -- Positivism, interpretivism, and the study of law / Gerald N. Rosenberg --Causal versus constitutive explanations (or, On the difficulty of being so positive ...) / Michael McCann -- Right, rage, and remedy forms of law in political discourse / John Brigham -- The structural context of novel rights claims : southern civil rights organizing, 1961-1966 / Francesca Polletta -- Human rights in Israel / Palestine : the history and politics of a movement / Lisa Hajjar -- So help me God : a comparative study of religious interest group litigation / JayanthK. Krishnan and Kevin R. den Dulk -- The ADA on the road : disability rights in Germany / Katharina C. Heyer -- Rights as excess : understanding the politics of special rights / Jonathan Golberg-Hiller and Neal Milner -- Law as a weapon in social conflict / Austin T. Turk -- Legal mobilization as a social movement tactic : the struggle for equal employment opportunity / Paul Burstein -- Comparing women's rights litigation in the Netherlands and the United States / Susan M. Olson -- Long-term strategies in Japanese environmental litigation / Robert L. Kidder and Setsuo Miyazawa -- Fufubessei movement in Japan : thinking about women's resistance and subjectivity / Ki-young Shin -- Law and the protection of cultural communities : the case of native American fishing rights / Michael R. Anderson -- Legal control of the southern civil rights movement / Steven E. Barkan -- Social movements, law, and society : the institutionalization of the environmental movement / Cary Coglianese -- Rights and social movements : counter-hegemonicstrategies / Alan Hunt -- Race, reform, and retrenchment : transformationand legitimation in antidiscrimination law / Kimberle Williams Crenshaw --Family, law and sexuality : feminist engagements / Susan B. Boyd -- Postmodernism, protest, and the new social movements / Joel F. Handler -- International law and social movements : challenges of theorizingresistance / Balakrishnan Rajagopal.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (662 pages)
• Subjects: 340/.115; Sociological jurisprudence; Social movements; Sociologie juridique; Mouvements sociaux; Social movements; Sociological jurisprudence; Sociale bewegingen; Rechtssociologie
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351560733; 1351560735
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.