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Rebecca Johnson
Researcher at University of Victoria
Publications - 32
Citations - 221
Rebecca Johnson is an academic researcher from University of Victoria. The author has contributed to research in topics: Supreme court & Dissent. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 32 publications receiving 216 citations.
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Taxing Choices: The Intersection of Class, Gender, Parenthood, and the Law
TL;DR: The intersection of power and wound in childcare politics is discussed in this paper, where a discussion of the limits of judicial power, constraints, and the Rhetoric of Choice can be found.
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Law and the Leaky Woman: the Saloon, the Liquor Licence, and Narratives of Containment
TL;DR: The authors explored the ways in which law and popular culture are jointly implicated in the material construction and maintenance of gendered spaces, gendered bodies, gendering norms and gendered knowledge, through drawing lines of connection between a Canadian tax law case, a nursing mother in a Bristol pub and Clint Eastwood's film Unforgiven.
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Strange encounters: Exploring law and film in the affective register
Ruth Buchanan,Rebecca Johnson +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the resonance of this insight in the register of affect and intensity, movement, and change is explored, and a different approach to doing theory is taken to understand how film not only represents the world, but participates in its making.
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Postcard from the Edge (of Empire)
Elizabeth Adjin-Tettey,Gillian Calder,Angela Cameron,Maneesha Deckha,Rebecca Johnson,Hester Lessard,Maureen A. Maloney,Margot Young +7 more
TL;DR: The Scrapbook project as mentioned in this paper explores the tension between the ideas of embodiment that connected our work, and the rigidities of academic convention by using various media, in substance and form, to provoke, challenge and confront its audience into dialogue, while simultaneously asking questions about the limits of our own legal imaginations.
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Judging gender: difference and dissent at the Supreme Court of Canada
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present and interrogate recent statistics about practices of dissent on the Supreme Court of Canada in relation to gender, and suggest the importance of better theorizing and exploring the space of dissent.