The Routledge handbook of law and death

"The Routledge Handbook of Law and Death provides a comprehensive survey of contemporary scholarship on the intersections of law and death in the twenty-first century. It showcases how socio-legal scholars have contributed to the critical turn in death studies and how the sociology of death has...

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Contributors: Trabsky, Marc (Editor) ; Jones, Imogen 1982- (Editor)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2025
In:Year: 2025
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Summary:"The Routledge Handbook of Law and Death provides a comprehensive survey of contemporary scholarship on the intersections of law and death in the twenty-first century. It showcases how socio-legal scholars have contributed to the critical turn in death studies and how the sociology of death has impacted upon the discipline of law. In bringing together prominent academics and emerging experts from a diverse range of disciplines, the handbook shows how far from shunning questions of mortality, legal institutions incessantly talk about death. Touching upon the epistemologies and materialities of death, and problems of contested deaths and posthumous harms, the handbook questions what is distinctive about the disciplinary alignment of law and death, how law regulates and manages death in the everyday, and how thinking with law can enrich our understandings of the presence of death in our lives. In a time when the world is facing global inequalities in living and dying, and legal institutions are increasingly interrogating their relationships to death, this handbook makes for essential reading for scholars, students and practitioners in law, humanities and the social sciences"--
Physical Description:xiv, 352 Seiten, Illustrationen
ISBN:9781032303383
9781032303390