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Daniel Hourigan’s book Law and Enjoyment: Power, Pleasure and Psychoanalysis (Routledge 2015) was recently awarded third prize in the internal University of Southern Queensland’s Publication Excellence Awards for Authored Books. The award showcases research and esteemed publication, and rewards the improvement of USQ’s research performance. Law and Enjoyment was also a finalist for the Association’s…
A great new book on Cultural Legal Studies, edited by Cassandra Sharp and Marrett Leiboff, has just been launched. Order online here. Details below. What can law’s popular cultures do for law, as a constitutive and interrogative critical practice? This collection explores such a question through the lens of the ‘cultural legal studies’ movement, which…
Cassandra Sharp and Marett Leiboff, eds. Cultural Legal Studies: Law’s Popular Cultures and the Metamorphosis of Law June 2015 What can popular cultures offer law, as a basis for critical practice? This introduction to the ‘cultural legal studies’ movement takes up this question as it presents a new encounter with the ‘cultural turn’ in law…
Where: Avid Reader – In Store Event, 193 Boundary St, West End, Brisbane, Queensland 4101 (AU). Date: Wednesday, 12, December, 2012 Time: 6:00:pm –  8:00:pm Join Griffith University’s Dr Chris Butler as Dan O’Neill launches Henri Lefebvre: Spatial Politics, Everyday Life and the Right to the City  The work of the philosopher Henri Lefebvre…