Power and Legitimacy: Law, Culture, and Literature

by Anne Qu?ma, Anne Quema, Anne Quaema

An interdisciplinary analysis of the ways in which symbolic acts create social norms, Power and Legitimacy is an important contribution to the growing body of scholarship on law and literature. Drawing on the theoretical insights of Judith Butler and Pierre Bourdieu, Anne Qu ma demonstrates the effect of symbolic violence on the creation of social and political legitimacy.

Examining modern jurisprudence theory, statutory law, and the family...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442649038
• ISBN13: 9781442649033
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher