Law and the passions: why emotion matters for justice

The Perception of Femicide from the Third Party’s Perspective: An Analysis on Justice/Injustice in Türkiye

“…Categories of constant surveillance and exclusion, which Giorgio Agamben calls homosacer, are imposed on individuals and social groups with certain characteristics. The "cursed" individual or "naked life" has been segregated from the rest of humanity through various forms of isolation, such as emergency legislation, detention, and prisons (Shaw, 2020), and some women have been removed from the category of being human and made a gender that the law cannot protect. But courts and legislatures can be the arbiters of our best hopes for justice, predictability, equality, and freedom from prejudice and corruption to end the brutal lethal violence against women that severs any relationship with the law.…”

Of Comics and Legal Aesthetics: Multimodality and the Haunted Mask of Knowing. By Thomas Giddens. London & New York: Routledge, 2018

“…Along with the no less playful but more serious superhero genre, exemplified by the UK's Eagle (1950–1969) featuring Dan Dare and the earlier creations of American DC Comics , Superman (1938) and Batman (1939), they present a complex world in which there is right and wrong, good and evil, crime and punishment. Such visual aesthetic forms increase awareness of ‘a multiplicity of dissident perspectives’ which stimulate ‘free play of the imagination and assist in our understanding of the world through our senses’; with the corollary that ‘the communicative power of this sensory information allows for richer intellectual and emotional engagement with objects and concepts as they really are’ (Shaw : 28).…”