Spatial Justice After Apartheid: Nomos in the Postcolony (Law and the Postcolonial)

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Synopsis
This book considers the question of spatial justice after apartheid, from several disciplinary perspectives – jurisprudence, law, literature, architecture, photography and psychoanalysis are just some of the disciplines engaged here. However, the main theoretical device on which the authors comment is the legacy of what in Carl Schmitt’s terms is nomos as the spatialised normativity of sociality. Each author considers within the practical and theoretical constraints of their topic, the question of what nomos in its modern configuration may or may not contribute to a thinking of spatial justice after apartheid. On the whole, the collection forces a confrontation between law’s spatiality in a "postcolonial" era, on the one hand, and the traumatic legacy of what Paul Gilroy has called the "colonial nomos", on the other hand. In the course of this confrontation, critical questions of continuation, extension, disruption, and rewriting are raised and confronted in novel and innovative ways that both challenge Schmitt’s account of nomos and affirm the centrality of the constitutive relation between law and space. The book promises to resituate the trajectory of nomos, while considering critical instances through which the spatial legacy of apartheid might at last be overcome. This interdisciplinary book will appeal to scholars of critical legal theory, political philosophy, aesthetics and architecture.
Copyright:
2022

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
266 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781351363471
Related ISBNs:
9780203712771, 9781032288109, 9781138559370
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
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Copyrighted By:
selection and editorial matter, Jaco Barnard-Naudé and Julia Chryssostalis
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No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Social Studies, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Politics and Government
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Jaco Barnard-Naudé
Edited by:
Julia Chryssostalis

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