Injurious Law by Catherine Trundle
In the 1950s Britain joined the nuclear age, detonating 21 nuclear bomb experiments in Australia and the Pacific. In Injurious Law Catherine Trundle crosses countries and traverses decades to explore the lingering, metamorphizing impacts of radiation exposure and militarism. Through a compelling portrait of the lives of test veterans seeking compensation and healthcare, Trundle reveals how injury law, and the political and medical processes upon which it depends, generates a troubling paradox for claimants. While offering the possibilities for recognition and redress, the very process of making injury claims generates new and cascading harms. Recasting injury to include its social, moral and political aftereffects, Trundle exposes the quotidian and often banal practices that make the law injurious. Moving between archives, living rooms, laboratories, courts, parliament, and veteran social gatherings, Injurious Law offers a justice-centred lens for understanding legal contestations in the aftermath of radiation exposure and other invisible environmental harms.
'A remarkable book – ethnographically compelling, theoretically astute, highly readable, an exemplar of engaged ethnographic writing' Carol J. Greenhouse, Princeton University
'Positioned at the intersection of legal anthropology, critical military studies, and science and technology studies, this is an empirically rich, carefully theorized, beautifully written, and timely and important book.' Kenneth MacLeish, Vanderbilt University
'Positioned at the intersection of legal anthropology, critical military studies, and science and technology studies, this is an empirically rich, carefully theorized, beautifully written, and timely and important book.' Kenneth MacLeish, Vanderbilt University
Catherine Trundle is a senior lecturer in Health and Society at La Trobe University, Australia. She is a leading expert in health justice and ethics, and the co-editor of Competing Responsibilities: The ethics and politics of contemporary life, and Detachment: Essays on the limits of relational thinking.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781009721509 |
| ISBN 10 | 100972150X |
| Title | Injurious Law |
| Author | Catherine Trundle |
| Series | Law In Context |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2026-05-31 |
| Number of pages | 220 |
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