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Law in crisis : the ecstatic subject of natural disaster /

Taking natural disaster as the political and legal norm is uncommon. Taking a person who has become unstable and irrational during a disaster as the starting point for legal analysis is equally uncommon. Nonetheless, this book makes the unsettling case that the law demands an ecstatic subject and th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Miller, Ruth Austin, 1975-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2009.
Colección:Cultural lives of law.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Writing about disaster : metaphors in crisis
  • The gift of life : blood, organs, and viruses
  • Respect in death : ghouls and corpses
  • Seismic space : camps, cemeteries, squares, and monuments
  • Conclusion.