1st Edition

Henri Lefebvre Spatial Politics, Everyday Life and the Right to the City

By Chris Butler Copyright 2012
194 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

200 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

200 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

While certain aspects of Henri Lefebvre’s writings have been examined extensively within the disciplines of geography, social theory, urban planning and cultural studies, there has been no comprehensive consideration of his work within legal studies. Henri Lefebvre: Spatial Politics, Everyday Life and the Right to the City provides the first serious analysis of the relevance and importance of... Read more
PART I: THEORETICAL ORIENTATIONS: Chapter 1.The social theory of Henri Lefebvre; Chapter 2. The production of space; Part II: SPATIAL POLITICS, EVERYDAY LIFE AND THE RIGHT TO THE CITY: Chapter 3. Space, abstraction and law; Chapter 4. State power and the politics of space; Chapter 5. Modernity, inhabitance and the rhythms of everyday life; Chapter 6. The right to the city and the production of differential space; Bibliography.

Biography

Chris Butler is a Lecturer at the Griffith Law School, Australia. He researches in the areas of critical theory, law and geography, administrative law and urban studies.

'This is an excellent book that will no doubt take up a place in the canon of secondary texts on Lefebvre' -Associate Professor, Mark Purcell, of the University of Washington for Society and Space Journal, 2013

'Chris Butler offers an erudite, concise, and coolly humorous account of Henri Lefebvre's work' - Associate Professor, Shaun McVeigh, of the Melbourne Law School for The Law for the Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia Journal, 2013

'...the book ‘successfully distills many essential and complex aspects of Lefebvre’s writings in a clear and decisive prose … but it also demonstrates multiple avenues of potential applicability for Lefebvre’s texts to legal theory' - John Zarobell (2014) ‘Book review: Spatial Politics, Everyday Life and the Right to the City’, Law, Culture and the Humanities, 10(3): 487-489