Spatial Justice Body, Lawscape, Atmosphere [Hardcover]

There can be no justice that is not spatial. Against a recent tendency to despatialise law, matter, bodies and even space itself, this book insists on spatialising them, arguing that there can be neither law nor justice that are not articulated through and in space.

Spatial Justicepresents a new theory and a radical application of the material connection between space  in the geographical as well as sociological and philosophical sense  and the law  in the broadest sense that includes written and oral law, but also embodied social and political norms. More specifically, it argues that spatial justice is the struggle of various bodies  human, natural, non-organic, technological  to occupy a certain space at a certain time. Seen in this way, spatial justice is the most radical offspring of the spatial turn, since, as this book demonstrates, spatial justice can be found in the core of most contemporary legal and political issues  issues such as geopolitical conflicts, environmental issues, animality, colonisation, droning, the cyberspace and so on. In order to ague this, the book employs the lawscape, as the tautology between law and space, and the concept of atmospherein its geological, political, aesthetic, legal and biological dimension.

Written by a leading theorist in the area, Spatial Justice: Body, Lawscape, Atmosphereforges a new interdisciplinary understanding of space and law, while offering a fresh approach to current geopolitical, spatiolegal and ecological issues.

Introduction,  Chapter One Laws Spatial Turn,  Chapter Two Welcome to the Lawscape,  Chapter ?hree From Lawscape to Atmosphere: Affects, Bodies, Air,  Chapter Four A Change of Air: The Posthuman Atmosphere,  Chapter Five Spatial Justice,  Chapter Six The Islands,  Bibliography

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