Spatial Justice and Diaspora

2017-01-12 Law

Author : Sarah Keenan
Release : 2017-01-12
Genre : Law
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Download or read book Spatial Justice and Diaspora written by Sarah Keenan. This book was released on 2017-01-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spatial Justice and Diaspora brings the concept of spatial justice into conversation with empirical studies of racism and displacement, challenging and extending critical discussions of place, socio-spatiality, identities, and the juridico-political order. The volume brings together work exploring the conceptual and practical meaning of diaspora through a broad range of grounded studies, ranging from Palestinian street protest in Chile, to poetry written in Guantanamo Bay, to everyday practices of Ethiopian homemaking in Sweden. In so doing, it adds to theoretical explorations of spatial justice a keen attentiveness to lived experiences of the local, while also questioning any romanticized or essentialist reading of diaspora. Bringing to the fore innovative interdisciplinary scholarship, Spatial Justice and Diaspora offers a new critical intervention at the intersection of these fields.

Spacing (in) Diaspora

2017-06-26 Law

Author : Emma Patchett
Release : 2017-06-26
Genre : Law
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Download or read book Spacing (in) Diaspora written by Emma Patchett. This book was released on 2017-06-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work attempts to counteract the essentialism of originary thinking in the contemporary era by providing a new reading of a relatively understudied corpus of literature from a ambivalently stereotyped diasporic group, in order to rethink and problematise the concept of diaspora as a spatial concept. As work situated in the Law-in-Literature movement, beyond the disciplinary boundaries of scholarship, this book aims to construct a ‘literary jurisprudence’ of diaspora space, deconstructing space in order to question what it means to be ‘settled’ in literary refractions of the lawscape by drawing on refractions of case law in a corpus of texts by Romani authors. These texts are used as hermeutic framings to draw unique spatio-temporal landscapes through which the reader can explore the refractive, reflective, interpretative conditions of legality as a crucible in which to theorise law.The radical intent of this work, therefore, is to deconstruct jurisprudential spatial order in order to theorize diaspora space, in the context of the Roma Diaspora. This work will offer readers new possibilities to re-imagine diaspora through law and literature and provides an innovative critical interdisciplinary analysis of the shaping of space.

Space Unjust

2008 City planning

Author : Michail Galanakis
Release : 2008
Genre : City planning
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Download or read book Space Unjust written by Michail Galanakis. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Space Unjust is a hopeful book about city space and social diversity. Observing how social discriminations materialize in urban public space, this work addresses the difficulties that urbanites face cohabiting in today's cities. For this living together in difference, negotiation is crucial, and a respect and appreciation for social diversity proves handy in dealing with issues of urban space. After all, it is people, rather than space, who commit injustices. Preconceived ideas, stereotypes and unquestionable norms poison the ground against inclusiveness, multiculturalism, justice and mutual respect. Listening to the unheard, and tracing the invisible, shift our perspectives and enrich our perceptions of the city. The role of design and management processes in shaping our everyday life in the city deserves close observation and analysis from various viewpoints. In Space Unjust, the Helsinki Railway Station and Omonia Square in Athens are brought to life through the presence and testimonies of the Other, in particular the Somali and Albanian diaspora. The comparative element between North and South is not conclusive; it points to the universality of socio-spatial discrimination and the importance of keeping discourse on socio-spatial justice alive.

Spatial Justice After Apartheid

2022-08-25 History

Author : Jaco Barnard-Naudé
Release : 2022-08-25
Genre : History
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Download or read book Spatial Justice After Apartheid written by Jaco Barnard-Naudé. This book was released on 2022-08-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Pauulu’s Diaspora

2021-10-12 Political Science

Author : Quito J. Swan
Release : 2021-10-12
Genre : Political Science
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Download or read book Pauulu’s Diaspora written by Quito J. Swan. This book was released on 2021-10-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choice Outstanding Academic Title Finalist, Association for the Study of African American Life and History Book Prize Honorable Mention, Organization of American Historians Liberty Legacy Foundation Award A Black Perspectives Best Black History Book of 2020 Winner of the African American Intellectual History Society Pauli Murray Book Prize Pauulu’s Diaspora is a sweeping story of black internationalism across the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Ocean worlds, told through the life and work of twentieth-century environmental activist Pauulu Kamarakafego. Challenging U.S.-centered views of Black Power, Quito Swan offers a radically broader perspective, showing how Kamarakafego helped connect liberation efforts of the African diaspora throughout the Global South. Born in Bermuda and with formative experiences in Cuba, Kamarakafego was aware at an early age of the effects of colonialism and the international scope of racism and segregation. After pursuing graduate studies in ecological engineering, he traveled to Africa, where he was inspired by the continent’s independence struggles and contributed to various sustainable development movements. Swan explores Kamarakafego’s remarkable fusion of political agitation and scientific expertise and traces his emergence as a central coordinator of major black internationalist conferences. Despite government surveillance, Kamarakafego built a network of black organizers that reached from Kenya to the islands of Oceania and included such figures as C. L. R. James, Queen Mother Audley Moore, Kwame Nkrumah, Sonia Sanchez, Sylvia Hill, Malcolm X, Vanessa Griffen, and Stokely Carmichael. In a riveting narrative that runs through Caribbean sugarcane fields, Liberian rubber plantations, and Papua New Guinean rainforests, Pauulu’s Diaspora recognizes a global leader who has largely been absent from scholarship. In doing so, it brings to light little-known relationships among Black Power, pan-Africanism, and environmental justice.

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