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Book SynopsisSocial movements provide the engine of legal change and law itself spurs social movement activity. This issue includes articles on social movements in several different nations, including France, South Africa and Canada, asking us to consider the way context is reflected in movement activities.
Table of ContentsList of Contributors. EDITORIAL BOARD. Two spinning wheels: Studying law and social movements. Decolonizing the law: LGBT organizing in Namibia and South Africa. Social movements and the state's construction of identity: The case of Muslims in France. Rejecting rights: The disability critique of physician assisted suicide. Social movements lashing back: Law, social change and intra-social movement backlash in Canada. Protest arrests and future protest participation: The 2004 republican national convention arrestees and the effects of repression. Convincing elites, controlling elites. After 9/11: Guantánamo and the mobilization of lawyers. Special Issue Social Movements/Legal Possibilities. Studies in law, politics, and society. Studies in law, politics, and society. Copyright page.
