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.
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.
Spatial Justice After Apartheid: Nomos in the Postcolony
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ISBN-13: | 9781032288109 |
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Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Publication date: | 05/27/2024 |
Series: | Law and the Postcolonial |
Pages: | 276 |
Product dimensions: | 6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d) |