Sheryl Hamilton is a co-investigator on a recently funded SSHRC project, entitled, “Law and the Regulation of the Senses: Explorations in Sensori-Legal Studies.”
Hamilton will first explore the ways in which different types of touch among amateur athletes are being regulated due to concerns regarding the spread of communicable disease. Second, she will be exploring the visual culture of “dirty hands” produced through public health hand washing poster campaigns.
With four other Carleton scholars, Sheryl Hamilton has an edited collection, Sensing Law, forthcoming with Routledge under its Glass House imprint.
The collection features authors from communication studies, English literature, anthropology, sociology, criminology, legal studies, environmental studies and law and examines topics as diverse as First Nations “sniff brigades” in Canada’s Chemical Valley, to the use of video reconstructions in American courtrooms, to the ways in which sound evidence is visualized in music copyright cases.
Thursday, September 24, 2015 in Communication News, News, Research
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