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Author Hamilton, Sheryl

Title Sensing Law
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (345 pages)
Series Social Justice
Social Justice
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I Experts and translation; 1 What it's like: demonstrative evidence of subjective experience; 2 Law's sensorium: on the media of law and the evidence of the senses in historical and cross-cultural perspective; 3 Seeing the similarities in songs: music plagiarism, forensic musicology and the translation of sound in the courtroom; 4 Visual logics of deduction: ocular presence and ocular distance in Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Purloined Letter'; Part II Bodies
5 How to make sense? An aesthesis of citizenship and legitimacy6 Legal sensibilities and the language of gesture in late-eighteenth-century British satirical prints; 7 The smell of neglect: a transcorporeal feminism for environmental justice; 8 Law's sense of smell: odours and evictions at the Landlord and Tenant Board; 9 Sensing sexual assault: evidencing truth claims in the forensic sensorium; Part III Space, place and subjectivities; 10 Sense of place and spirit of place in the Schubart Park case; 11 An empire of sound: sentience, sonar and sensory impudence
12 The optics of war: seeing civilians, enacting distinctions, and visual crises in international law13 Invitations and exhortations: an epilogue; Bibliography; Index
Notes Print version record
Form Electronic book
Author Moore, Dawn
Sargent, Neil
Wilke, Christiane
ISBN 9781317282037
1317282035