... citizenship matter more for peoples in the developing world than legal principles (jus soli and jus sanguinis). An administrative citizenship actualized through documentation is what people engage in daily. Administrative citizenship is torn between the expansion of rights and order to produce a standard...

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... operation of capitalism. The myth of a neutral, natural legal order conceals these deeper dynamics of violence, with liberal legal narratives of freedom and equality embodying moral reference points that are at odds with the political economy within which they are asserted. Yet while classical liberal...

.... They read the past from the vantage point of five, ten, or even twenty years after the moment of capture. Indigenous slaves responded to these charges by expressing their understandings of these legal categories in relation to their own versions of the past. cannibalism legal narratives indio just...

... against legal, technological, and economic environments that pose major hurdles: a global gig economy that demands high volumes of material and expects it for free, discriminatory legal frameworks based on simplistic narratives about porn’s value and effects, algorithmic ranking systems that maintain...

... and court decisions enabling the deportation of U.S. citizens, a scenario that can be understood as aliens creating and using laws for deporting citizens. Jacqueline Stevens uses insights from Jacques Derrida and describes these legally staged events as “apologues,” a form of rhetoric that reduces...

... Despite water engineers’ best attempts to explain water trouble as the result of technical difficulties, natural disasters, or shortages, dry taps are overwhelmingly described in private conversations, in popular discourse, and in media narratives as the result of an all-knowing, all-powerful...

... There is an intricate web surrounding the use of excited delirium syndrome in the legal defense of taser-involved deaths. The chapter exposes Charles Wetli's role as one of the paid experts for Taser International, and it uncovers the collusion between medical examiners, researchers, police...

... of “in-culture” and “in-language” message creation by exploring a process Asian American advertising executives called “transcreation,” the work of adapting “general market” or mainstream advertising’s brand identities for Asian American audiences. It also examines how ad executives use concepts of narrative...

... Chapter 3 examines how the normalization of settler sovereignty is the background against which the labors of eldercare unfold in the home. Drawing on employer narratives, government statements, and recruitment agency websites, I highlight two common tropes among employers. The “kinship trope...

... One narrative ritual continues to inaugurate most historiographical projects of sexuality: the problem-event, the detail, the legal case—in other words, an archival trace that compresses or even obfuscates historical content, legible only through reconstructive hermeneutics. For scholars working...

... Chapter 5, “Pedro, Paula, and the Refugees,” uses three case studies to refocus the narrative onto the humans who lived in, were taken from, or left Palmares. First is Pedro Soeiro, a Palmares elite, who colonial forces captured and sent to Portugal in the early 1680s. Second is a group...

... This chapter focuses on the legalization of media censorship in Cuba at the end of the 1950s and the government’s transformative interpretation of morality and decency in entertainment programming. Between 1957 and 1958, as the Ministry of Communication regulated sexual content on television...

... In chapter 10, Margaret D. Stock explores the historical and practical application of “birthright citizenship” and its legal foundation in the Fourteenth Amendment. She discusses the potential, unanticipated consequences of changing America’s long-standing constitutional birthright citizenship...

... under colonial domination that both challenged and reified narratives of Puerto Rican modernity. “Puerto Rico es salsa” decontextualized the music from both diasporic and Black Puerto Rican histories and everyday lives even as the campaign celebrated the music’s Nuyorican meanings. Seville Expo...

..., including his claims that he rarely visited the prison and did not hear the screams of prisoners, even though he acknowledged visiting the prisoner artisan workshop on occasion. Bou Meng also testified that Duch once ordered another prisoner and Bou Meng to fight. Drawing on these narratives and the stories...

... of the geopolitics of gender violence by showing the utility of the concept of “state crime” that legal theorists and criminologists have recently developed to analyze states' use of violence to control, discriminate against, and govern subjugated populations. Based on the girls' descriptions of what they experience...

...Media Frames This chapter analyzes the author's dramatic story of pitching an article investigating the media coverage and complex politics of a highly publicized legal case in Michigan against a physician for performing female genital cutting (FGC). The case coincided with the introduction...

...People Chapter 5, “Pedro, Paula, and the Refugees,” uses three case studies to refocus the narrative onto the humans who lived in, were taken from, or left Palmares. First is Pedro Soeiro, a Palmares elite, who colonial forces captured and sent to Portugal in the early 1680s. Second...

... movement has become increasingly conservative since the 1970s. Instead of being a progressive force for social justice, these critics point out, the gay movement has helped to cause and sustain a range of social inequalities. This article challenges that conventional narrative through an examination...