Failed Revolutions

Social Reform And The Limits Of Legal Imagination

AvRichard Delgado

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

Focusing on the crucial discipline of the law, Failed Revolutions casts light on the many forces working against meaningful social change. It is a valuable reading for any citizen concerned with the possibility of social reform.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-12-07
Mått:152 x 229 x 12 mm
Vikt:453 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:228
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780367157630

Utforska kategorier

Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Innehållsförteckning

Part One: On the Difficulty of Imagining a Better Society 1. Images of the Outsider in American Law and Culture: Can Free Expression Remedy Deeply Inscribed Social Ills? 2. Judges' Misjudgments 3. Why Do We Tell the Same Stories? Law Reform, Critical Librarianship, and the Triple Helix Dilemma Part Two: On the Difficulty of Hearing What Our Prophets Are Saying 4. The Imperial Scholar: How to Marginalize Outsider Writing 5. Gathering with the Like-Minded: Symposium Battles 6. Pornography and Harm to Women: "No Empirical Evidence"? Part Three: Why We Always Embrace Moderate Solutions (or Saviors) 7. "Our Better Natures": A Revisionist View of the Public Trust Doctrine in Environmental Theory 8. Shadowboxing: An Essay on Power Part Four: Supreme Court (and Other) Rhetoric: How the Way Powerful Institutions Talk Can Devalue and Marginalize Outsider Groups 9. Scorn and Imposition-How We Use Language, Consciously or Unconsciously, to Derail Reform 10. Conclusion 11. Epilogue