Looking for Spatial Justice
Where is justice? Or, more precisely, what is the where of justice? For quite some time the elephant in the room of social science’s spatial turn – the formula was only mentioned three times in the...
View ArticleBearing Justice
The ‘domino effect’ is a remarkably crude mechanical metaphor which once again implicitly informs mainstream characterisations1 of the revolutions in play in Tunisia, Egypt, and to a lesser degree...
View ArticleSeeds of Justice
Today Al Weiwei’s installation at Tate Modern comes to an end. Unfortunately, the Chinese artist is currently in the limelight due to more pressing reasons, since his arrest earlier this month,...
View ArticleHome & Apart: Spatial Justice in ‘Women of Cyprus’
On the 16th of June 2011, the Westminster International Law & Theory Centre hosted the London premiere of Women of Cyprus, a documentary directed by Vassiliki Katrivanou and Bushra Azzouz, followed...
View ArticleA Play on Justice: The Trial of Phryne at (Occupied) Old Street Magistrates...
Yet it is precisely the disenchantment of beauty in the experience of nudity, this sublime but also miserable exhibition of appearance beyond all mystery and all meaning, that can somehow defuse the...
View ArticleLarge-Scale Housing Projects: Bombardment in the Cities
San José, Colombia. We were searching for the only house in the street left standing. Jump by jump, we dodged so much debris that I began to imagine I was moving through one of those photographs of the...
View ArticleAll Rise: What Does Justice Sound Like?
Three years ago last Saturday, an oil rig around 50 kilometres off the coast of Louisiana exploded. The explosion killed eleven workers instantaneously, and marked the beginning of an 87-day period of...
View ArticleThe Encrypted Constitution: A New Paradigm of Oppression
Ever since judicial supremacy was affirmed in Marbury v Madison [5 US 137 (1803)], the political content of US-inspired constitutions has been compressed and turned into purely techno-legal content...
View ArticleLaunch: Spatial Justice: Body, Lawscape, Atmosphere, 5 Dec 2014, University...
This book took a few chunks of my soul, several sleepless nights and copious amounts of chocolate to write. Do come along and help me launch it. There will be book presentations by the inspiring Anne...
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