TY - BOOK
T1 - Redressing Everyday Discrimination: The Weakness and Potential of Anti-Discrimination Law
AU - Perez Portilla, Karla
PY - 2016/3/30
Y1 - 2016/3/30
N2 - This book examines the harm that everyday discrimination can cause and proposes ways in which it can be redressed. Extreme forms of harmful expression, such as incitement to hatred, have been significantly addressed in law. Everyday generalised prejudice, negative stereotypes and gross under-representation of disadvantaged groups in mainstream media are, however, widely perceived as ‘normal’, and their criticism is regularly trivialised. In response, this book draws on critical and feminist theory in order to forge a theoretical analysis of the harm created through everyday discrimination. Arguing that anti-discrimination law can and should be extended as a tool to offer protection against the harm inflicted, the book goes on to consider both its limits, and possibilities, for redressing this discriminatory practice.
AB - This book examines the harm that everyday discrimination can cause and proposes ways in which it can be redressed. Extreme forms of harmful expression, such as incitement to hatred, have been significantly addressed in law. Everyday generalised prejudice, negative stereotypes and gross under-representation of disadvantaged groups in mainstream media are, however, widely perceived as ‘normal’, and their criticism is regularly trivialised. In response, this book draws on critical and feminist theory in order to forge a theoretical analysis of the harm created through everyday discrimination. Arguing that anti-discrimination law can and should be extended as a tool to offer protection against the harm inflicted, the book goes on to consider both its limits, and possibilities, for redressing this discriminatory practice.
KW - media regulation
KW - ant-discrimination law
KW - hate speech
KW - cultural aspects
U2 - 10.4324/9781315688534
DO - 10.4324/9781315688534
M3 - Book
SN - 9781138918405
T3 - Glass House
BT - Redressing Everyday Discrimination: The Weakness and Potential of Anti-Discrimination Law
PB - Routledge
ER -