Disobedient subjects – constructing the subject, the state and religion in the European Court of Human Rights.
In this article, I analyse how the law participates in the (re)production process of the subject, the state and religion, and how the law's indefiniteness allows various constructions of them all. In the first part of the article I discuss the Islamic headscarf cases of the European Court of Human R...
| Published in: | Social Identities Vol. 21; no. 4; pp. 312 - 328 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jul2015
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