276pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Routledge, Abingdon & New York, 2024

ISBN: 9781032288109

A collection of essays that consider the question of spatial justice after apartheid from the perspectives of jurisprudence, law, literature, architecture, photography, psychoanalysis, and more.

Contributions include:

"Un/mapping Black life: On estranged spatialities, colonial nomos and the ruses of 'post'-apartheid" by Joel M. Modiri

"On the San Dominick: Thinking nomos and postcolonial becoming with Melville, Schmitt and Fanon" by Julia Chryssostalis

"Inventaris van my bankrotskap as digter/Inventory of my poetic bankruptcy" by Antjie Krog

"The ground beneath our feet: Black feminist geography in South African literature" by Barbara Boswell

“'Space is space': The nomos of apartheid, 'the coloniser who refuses' and uncolonial spatiality in JM Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians" by Jaco Barnard-Naudé

"Rewriting type: Writing nomos otherwise" by Iain Louw

Jaco Barnard-Naudé is Professor of Jurisprudence and Co-Director of the Centre for Rhetoric Studies at the Law Faculty, University of Cape Town. He was Research Professor in the Free State Centre for Human Rights at the University of the Free State and an Honorary Research Fellow of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London.

Julia Chryssostalis is Principal Lecturer and Co-Director of the Westminster Law and Theory Lab at the University of Westminster Law School, UK. She worked as a lawyer in Athens, Greece, while chairing the Human Rights Education Committee of the Greek Section of Amnesty International, and has held Visiting Fellowships at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, Princeton University, USA and University of Cape Town.

SPATIAL JUSTICE AFTER APARTHEID, nomos in the postcolony

: Barnard-Naudé (J.) & Chryssostalis (J.) eds.

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