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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imaginary Boundaries of Justice: Social and Legal Justice across Disciplines by Edited by Ronnie Lippens
It has become increasingly difficult to speak or even think social or legal justice in an age when words have left their moorings. Perhaps images are more stable than words; maybe images and imagery possess a certain viscosityeven a sensory quality which prevents them from evaporating. This maybe is what this book is about. The contributors to this collection explore the issue of how the Imaginary (images imagery imagination) has a role in the production and reproduction of visions of legal and social justice. It argues that visions of justice are inevitably bounded. Boundaries of visions of justice however are also imaginary. They emerge within imaginary spaces and as they are imaginary they are inherently unstable. The book captures an emerging interest (in the humanities and social sciences) in images and the visual or the Imaginary more broadly. This collection will appeal to scholars and students of social and legal theory visual culture justice and governance studies media studies and criminology.show more