Routledge Handbook of Law and Theory

Abstract

This is a rarity in the handbook form, a work of novelty and inspiration addressing law in the Anthropocene. Ambitious, argute, and cutting edge, these essays engage in a material, affective and supra-disciplinary manner with the fluid presences and synaesthetically apprehended atmospherics of legality.'Peter Goodrich, Professor of Law and Director of the Program in Law and Humanities, Cardozo School of Law, New York.'This major new collection challenges received notions of what legal theory and scholarship entail. Working from the field's "edges", its orientation to connection, and new intellectual conversations, foreground the rich, embodied, hopeful and disturbing practices of our existence, inviting legal and non-legal scholars to rethink what they know and feel about law.'

Public housing on ‘The Rocks’: brutalism, heritage and the defence of inhabitance

“…But the right to the city is itself situated within a deeper set of spatial relations which Lefebvre addresses in his writings. I have elsewhere described this relational context as a 'politics of inhabitance' which is based on the physical occupation of the body, the creative appropriation of space and utopian ambitions to exceed the limits of current boundaries between the possible and the impossible (Butler 2012(Butler , 2017(Butler ,2019. In Lefebvre's classic 1970s text The production of space, he emphasises the necessity of space to be occupied, that there is "an immediate relationship between the body and its space, between the body's deployment in space and its occupation of space" (Lefebvre 1991: 170).…”