Amin Parsa – författare

Vad gör vi människor med rätten, och vad gör rätten med oss? Författarna i denna antologi bidrar med fördjupande analyser av vilken betydelse både formella politiska beslut och informella samhällsnormer har för rättssystemets praktik. Boken visar hur olika aktörer – såsom stater, politiker, tjänstemän, intresseorganisationer, brottsoffer och enskilda – använder domstolar och andra rättsliga mekanismer för att påverka politiken och samhället, och hur de själva, i sin tur, påverkas av att göra detta.Samhället och rätten vänder sig till studenter inom offentlig förvaltning, juridik, statsvetenskap, sociologi och andra närliggande ämnen, som vill förstå hur rätten formar och formas av samhället. Med sin bredd av teoretiska perspektiv och empiriska fenomen hämtade från både svenska och internationella förhållanden passar boken också utmärkt som inspirationskälla inför uppsatsskrivande på både grundnivå och avancerad nivå.

This book is about how distinctions are drawn between civilians and combatants in modern warfare and how the legal principle of distinction depends on the technical means through which combatants make themselves visibly distinguishable from civilians.The author demonstrates that technologies of visualisation have always been part of the operation of the principle of distinction, arguing that the military uniform sustained the legal categories of civilian and combatant and actively set the boundaries of permissible and prohibited targeting, and so legal and illegal killing. Drawing upon insights from the theory of legal materiality, visual studies, critical fashion studies, and a dozen of military manuals he shows that far from being passive objects of regulation, these technologies help to draw the boundaries of the legitimate target.With its attention to the co-productive relationship between law, technologies of visualisation and legitimation of violence, this book will be relevant to a large community of researchers in international law, international relations, critical military studies, contemporary counterinsurgency operations and the sociology of law.

This book is about how distinctions are drawn between civilians and combatants in modern warfare and how the legal principle of distinction depends on the technical means through which combatants make themselves visibly distinguishable from civilians.The author demonstrates that technologies of visualisation have always been part of the operation of the principle of distinction, arguing that the military uniform sustained the legal categories of civilian and combatant and actively set the boundaries of permissible and prohibited targeting, and so legal and illegal killing. Drawing upon insights from the theory of legal materiality, visual studies, critical fashion studies, and a dozen of military manuals he shows that far from being passive objects of regulation, these technologies help to draw the boundaries of the legitimate target.With its attention to the co-productive relationship between law, technologies of visualisation and legitimation of violence, this book will be relevant to a large community of researchers in international law, international relations, critical military studies, contemporary counterinsurgency operations and the sociology of law.