1st Edition

Spaces of Justice Peripheries, Passages, Appropriations

Edited By Chris Butler, Edward Mussawir Copyright 2017
183 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

183 Pages
by Routledge

This collection is inspired by the transdisciplinary possibilities posed by the connections between space and justice. Drawing on a variety of theoretical influences that include Henri Lefebvre, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Doreen Massey, Gillian Rose, Walter Benjamin, Elias Canetti, Antonio Negri and Yan Thomas, the contributors to this book conduct a series of jurisprudential, aesthetic... Read more

Assembling spaces of justice, Chris Butler and Edward Mussawir PERIPHERIES 1. Spatial justice in a world of violence, Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos 2. Justice ‘from room to room’: Toward a concept of procedural space in Kafka’s The Trial and the fictional work of Western jurisprudence, Edward Mussawir 3. Artists and gentrification: Is that warehouse conversion my fault?, Zanny Begg PASSAGES 4. Mourning place, Olivia Barr 5. Walking with the dead: Coronial law and spatial justice in the necropolis, Marc Trabsky APPROPRIATIONS 6. Space, politics, justice, Chris Butler 7. Immersing, comprehending and reappropriating: Milan, unreformed, in the alternative architectures of Ugo La Pietra, Alexandra Brown 8. This agitated veil: A spatial justice of the crowd?, Illan rua Wall

Biography

Chris Butler and Edward Mussawir are lecturers at the Griffith Law School, Australia. Chris researches in the areas of social theory, critical approaches to state power and urban political ecology. His book Henri Lefebvre: Spatial Politics, Everyday Life and the Right to the City (2012) is published by Routledge. Edward's research focuses on various themes in jurisprudence including jurisdiction, judgment and the work of Gilles Deleuze. He is the author of Jurisdiction in Deleuze: The Expression and Representation of Law (2011).